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.
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.