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Iasos was a coastal Carian city whose harbor economy depended heavily on fish — so much so that ancient writers, including Athenaeus, recorded that the locals were so fixated on the fish market that a citharode performing in the agora was abandoned mid-concert the moment the fish-seller's bell rang. The bronze civic coinage produced here during this period reflects a municipal economy asserting independence between successive Macedonian, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid overlordships — the city changed hands repeatedly across the late 3rd century. Ashton's die study established this as the earliest group in the Iasian bronze sequence.