Hemidrachm

Teos, the Ionian Greek city on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, was a significant commercial hub whose coinage circulated widely through eastern Mediterranean trade networks. The city is also notable as the birthplace of Anacreon. When the Persians under Harpagus advanced on Ionia around 545 BC, the majority of Teans abandoned the city entirely and relocated to Abdera in Thrace rather than submit — one of the more dramatic collective acts of resistance in the Greek world. Those who remained eventually came to terms with Achaemenid authority, and coinage continued under Persian suzerainty.