Catalog
Æ18
| Issuer | Klazomenai |
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| Year | 190 BC - 30 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Swan standing left, its body rendered in profile with wings folded and neck gracefully curved; the bird stands upon a caduceus (kerykeion) oriented horizontally beneath its feet, a civic emblem closely associated with Klazomenai. The ethnic legend ΚΛΑΖΟ / ΜΕΝΙΩΝ is disposed in two lines in the field, divided above and below the central device. |
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| Mint | Klazomenai (Ionia) |
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Klazomenai, an Ionian city on a small island connected to the mainland by a causeway Alexander the Great reportedly had built, had a long minting tradition stretching back to the archaic electrum coinage of the sixth century BC. By the Hellenistic period the city operated under shifting Seleucid and later Pergamene influence before passing to Rome after the bequest of Attalos III in 133 BC. The broad date range assigned to this type reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty — the civic bronze series of minor Ionian mints resists tight chronological attribution without hoard evidence.