Æ17

Phokaia's bronze issues of this period were struck by a city that had already survived one of the ancient world's more dramatic episodes of mass emigration — when the Persians seized the city in the 540s BC, a substantial portion of the population chose exile over submission, eventually founding Elea on the Italian coast. The fourth-century civic coinage reflects a restored but diminished polis, minting in bronze as electrum and silver output contracted sharply under Achaemenid pressure on the Aegean coast.

SNG Copenhagen 1039 remains the standard reference for this type, catalogued from the Danish National Museum's holdings assembled largely in the nineteenth century.