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| Issuer | Klazomenai |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Diameter | 12.0 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | KΛA |
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| Mint | Klazomenai Mint |
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| Additional information |
Klazomenai, an Ionian city on a peninsula near modern Urla in Turkey, was forcibly relocated to an offshore island by Alexander the Great — connected to the mainland by a causeway he ordered constructed. Small bronzes from this mint predate that disruption, circulating through a city still commercially active in the Aegean trade networks of the fourth century. The type is common enough in collections but rarely appears in consistent condition, given the notoriously porous fabric of early Ionian civic bronze.