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Kyme was the largest and most prosperous of the Aeolian cities on the western coast of Asia Minor, yet it left an oddly muted mark on ancient literary and numismatic history — Hesiod's father emigrated from there, a fact the poet recorded with no apparent pride. The city's bronze coinage of this period was produced under shifting political pressures as the Seleucid and then Pergamene spheres of influence alternated control over Aeolis following the fragmentation of Alexander's empire.

The Attalid absorption of the region after Apameia in 188 BC likely marks the closing bracket on this issue's production.