Diobol - Alypion

Teos, the Ionian coastal city best known as the birthplace of the lyric poet Anacreon, issued coinage under considerable political disruption during this period — the city was temporarily abandoned in the 540s BC when its population fled to Abdera rather than submit to Persian rule, and the trauma of that episode shaped Tean civic identity for generations. By the fourth century, Teos operated under shifting Persian, then Macedonian influence following Alexander's campaigns through Ionia. The magistrate name Alypion places this issue within a sequence of named-magistrate diobols catalogued in SNG Kayhan.