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Æ - Hegesianax

Issuer Kolophon (Ionia)
Year 330 BC - 285 BC
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Diameter 17 mm
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Reverse script Greek
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Edge Plain
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Kolophon's bronze coinage of this period was issued under magistrate names — Hegesianax being one of the officials responsible for authorizing the city's autonomous bronze production during a stretch when Ionia was passing between Macedonian successors following Alexander's death. The city itself was in demographic crisis: Lysimachos forcibly relocated much of Kolophon's population to his newly founded Ephesos around 294 BC, effectively ending the old city as a functioning civic center.

That resettlement gives this issue a hard terminus in practical terms.