Clazomenae, one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, had been a continuous issuing authority stretching back to the archaic period — it is credited among the earliest Greek cities to strike electrum coins in the seventh century BC. By the time this bronze was produced under Claudius, the city operated within the conventus of Smyrna, the Roman administrative district that handled judicial and fiscal affairs for the western Anatolian coast. Clazomenae's civic pride in its ancient coining tradition almost certainly drove continued local bronze production well into the imperial period.
Clazomenae, one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, had been a continuous issuing authority stretching back to the archaic period — it is credited among the earliest Greek cities to strike electrum coins in the seventh century BC. By the time this bronze was produced under Claudius, the city operated within the conventus of Smyrna, the Roman administrative district that handled judicial and fiscal affairs for the western Anatolian coast. Clazomenae's civic pride in its ancient coining tradition almost certainly drove continued local bronze production well into the imperial period.