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Atarneos was a coastal polis in Mysia whose history is overshadowed almost entirely by a single episode: Aristotle spent several years there under the patronage of Hermias, a former slave turned tyrant who had purchased the city. By the late first century BC, the town had long since faded from political significance, and bronze civic issues of this period were almost certainly struck for local exchange in a community operating well within the administrative orbit of the Roman province of Asia.

The SNG France specimen catalogued as #131 remains one of the primary reference points for attribution of this type.