Drachm - Hegestratos

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.