Æ13 civic issue

Elaia was among the smaller Aeolian coastal settlements on the gulf south of Pergamon, more port than polis, and its civic bronze issues were produced to meet purely local exchange needs. The Winterthur reference places this piece within a well-documented Swiss collection that dispersed significant Aeolian material, but the type itself remains lightly studied — Elaia generated no major numismatic literature of its own, and attribution often depends on die comparison rather than any strong epigraphic tradition.