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Chalkon
| Issuer | Lebedos |
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| Year | 375 BC - 350 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΛΕ |
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Lebedos was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, situated on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor between Colophon and Teos. It was sufficiently obscure even in antiquity — Strabo remarks that by his time the city had been nearly depopulated, its inhabitants forcibly relocated to Ephesus under a scheme pushed by Lysimachus. Bronze civic coinage from Lebedos is rare precisely because the city's independent minting life was compressed and interrupted, with autonomous issues attributed to a relatively narrow window before Macedonian consolidation of the region reshaped local authority.