The date range here runs backward by convention — this is a late Athenian civic bronze issued during the early Roman imperial period, when Athens retained its mint but operated under the close watch of Roman provincial administration. Kroll's sequence places these pieces within a well-documented typological series, though the specific magistrate responsible for this emission remains unidentified. Bronze civic coinage of this period circulated locally at a granular, everyday level that silver and gold never reached.
The date range here runs backward by convention — this is a late Athenian civic bronze issued during the early Roman imperial period, when Athens retained its mint but operated under the close watch of Roman provincial administration. Kroll's sequence places these pieces within a well-documented typological series, though the specific magistrate responsible for this emission remains unidentified. Bronze civic coinage of this period circulated locally at a granular, everyday level that silver and gold never reached.