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| Issuer | Sigeion |
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| Year | 350 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (-350) |
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Sigeion occupied a strategically critical position at the entrance to the Hellespont, and control of it was contested repeatedly — most notably between Athens and Mytilene in the sixth century, with Periander of Corinth eventually arbitrating the dispute. By the fourth century the city had passed through enough hands that its autonomous bronze coinage is something of a footnote, produced in the window before Macedonian expansion rendered local civic issues increasingly nominal. The Copenhagen and BMC references place this squarely within the known series, but the type remains poorly studied relative to its geopolitical importance.