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Drachm - Hegestratos
| Issuer | Kios |
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| Year | 350 BC - 300 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Mint | Kios (Mysia) |
| Mintage | ND (350 BC - 300 BC) |
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Kios, the Bithynian Greek city on the Propontis, issued coins bearing magistrate names as a matter of civic accounting rather than honorific tradition — Hegestratos was one such signing official, his name serving to date and authenticate a specific emission rather than to commemorate anything. The city's coinage was interrupted when Prusias I of Bithynia razed and refounded Kios as Prusias ad Mare around 202 BC, ending the autonomous civic mint entirely.
The McClean collection reference places this among a tightly grouped series catalogued by S.W. Grose in 1923, still the most reliable sequence for Kian magistrate issues.