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Standing figure of Apollo in high relief, rendered in Hellenistic style, facing slightly right and clad in a long draped chiton. The deity holds a lyre in the left arm, the instrument resting against the body, while the right arm is extended. The ethnic legend ΚΟΛΟΦΩΝΙΩΝ is inscribed vertically along the left field in Greek characters. The flan is slightly irregular, with flat areas consistent with provincial bronze coinage of the late Hellenistic period. |
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Apollo seated left on an omphalos or throne, depicted in a dignified Hellenistic style, wearing draped garments. The god holds a patera or phiale in the outstretched right hand and rests the left arm along the body. A tall laurel branch or palm stands vertically to the right of the figure. The magistrate's name ΑΠΟΛΛΑΣ is inscribed vertically in the left field in Greek letters, identifying the issuing authority responsible for this bronze issue. |
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Kolophon's bronze coinage of the late Hellenistic period was struck under civic magistrates whose names appear on the issues — Apollas being among the identifiable series documented by Milne. By the mid-first century BC, Kolophon had long since lost its classical prominence; the original city had been destroyed by Lysimachos around 299 BC and the population forcibly resettled into the newly founded Ephesos. The "Kolophon" issuing this coin was the reconstituted community, never fully recovering its earlier commercial weight.