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Æ16
| Issuer | Ios |
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| Year | 300 BC - 1 BC |
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| Weight | 4.18 g |
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| Reverse lettering | I HT |
| Edge | Plain |
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Ios (modern Ios, in the Cyclades) was a minor island polis with an outsized claim to fame in antiquity — it was widely regarded in ancient sources as the burial place of Homer, a tradition the islanders actively promoted. Whether that reputation translated into any meaningful economic weight is doubtful; the island's bronze coinage was strictly local in circulation, filling small-denomination needs in a community that left almost no documentary record of its civic finances.
The BMC Greek 6 attribution places this firmly within the standard Cycladic civic bronze tradition, though Ios issues are scarce enough that die studies remain incomplete.