Catalog
| Issuer | Kolophon (Ionia) |
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| 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.