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Mysia, Gambrion (Poyracik, Izmir, Turkey)
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Sear 3871, SNG France 908-921, SNG Copenhagen 146-149.
AE unit; ca. 350-200 B.C., 4.13 g., 17.37 mm. max., 180°
Obv.: Laureate head of Apollo right.
Rev.: Twelve-pointed star, Γ-[A-M] between rays.
The earliest mention of Gambrion is in Xenophon's Anabasis which discusses the region in 399 B.C. The city peaked during the rule of the Pergamon Kingdom in the third and second centuries B.C.
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