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| Issuer | Imbros (Thrace) |
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| Year | 386 BC - 261 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Imbros, Insula Thraciae, modern-day Island of Gökçeada, Turkey |
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Imbros was an Athenian cleruchy — a colony of Athenian citizens who retained full citizenship while holding land abroad — seized by Miltiades the Elder in the late sixth century and jealously guarded by Athens thereafter. The island changed hands repeatedly: taken by Persia, recovered, lost again to Macedon, and briefly restored to Athenian control under the terms of the King's Peace of 386 BC. This bronze issue falls within that contested window, struck when the cleruchy was functioning but Athenian authority in the northern Aegean was never entirely secure.