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Æ15
| Issuer | Kyme |
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| Year | 200 BC - 75 BC |
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| Weight | 4.10 g |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kyme was the largest and most prosperous of the Aeolian cities on the western coast of Asia Minor, yet it left a notably thin mark on ancient literary history — the geographer Strabo drily noted it produced no man of distinction except Hesiod's father, who emigrated. The city's bronze coinage of this period was municipally autonomous but issued under the broad commercial shadow of Pergamon, whose Attalid kings dominated the region until Rome inherited it by bequest in 133 BC.
The SNG Copenhagen specimens catalogued as 106 and 107 represent minor die variants within the same emission series.