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Æ16 ΕΦΕ

Issuer Ephesus (Ionia)
Year 509 BC - 27 BC
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Reference(s) I#2569
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Obverse script Greek
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Edge Plain
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Additional information

Ephesus operated as a Greek polis, a Lydian subject city, a Persian satrapal center, and eventually a Hellenistic dynastic holding before Rome absorbed it — this bronze circulated through some or all of that institutional turbulence. The city's mint was among the most prolific in western Asia Minor, sustained by Ephesus's position as a commercial hub at the mouth of the Cayster River.

The five-century date range assigned to this type reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty about Ephesian bronze chronology, not careless attribution.

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