Æ27 - Hadrian ΚΛΑΖΟΜΕ ϹΤΡ ΚΛ ΘΕΜΙϹΤΟ

Clazomenae, the Ionian city on a small island connected to the mainland by a causeway Alexander the Great reportedly had constructed, retained its civic coinage well into the imperial period as a mark of local administrative prestige rather than economic necessity. The strategos Kl. Themisto named in the legend held a magistracy that doubled as the issuing authority for civic bronzes — a practice the Roman administration tolerated throughout the conventus of Smyrna as long as imperial imagery satisfied the political requirements of the arrangement.