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Æ16
| Issuer | Kyme |
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| Year | 350 BC - 250 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | An oenochoe (wine jug) depicted in profile at centre, with the vessel's handle and spout rendered in fine relief, characteristic of Aeolian civic bronze coinage. A monogram appears to the left of the jug in the field, likely denoting a secondary magistrate or mint control mark. The field is otherwise 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 issued no silver coinage of its own for most of its history — a deliberate or circumstantial dependence on regional silver that makes its bronze civic issues the primary surviving evidence of local monetary activity. This piece falls within a long production window during which Kyme navigated Persian suzerainty, the disruptions of Alexander's campaigns, and early Seleucid influence without altering its coin types.