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Chersonesos — the narrow peninsula separating the Aegean from the Propontis — controlled the grain route from the Black Sea to Athens, making it strategically critical throughout the fourth century BC. Athenian cleruchs were settled there by Pericles, and the region changed hands repeatedly between Athens, Macedon, and local Thracian powers across precisely the decades this type was struck.

The spread of SNG Copenhagen references across two sequential numbers suggests minor die or fabric variations catalogued separately by the Copenhagen editors.