Hemidrachm

Kebren was a minor Aeolian city in the Troad, situated on the Kebren river inland from the more prominent coastal settlements. It struck its own coinage during the fifth century despite limited political reach — a common enough assertion of autonomy among small Anatolian poleis during the period when Persian satrapal authority nominally governed the region but left civic minting largely undisturbed. The Bement reference places this piece within a well-documented early collection, the Bement sale of 1924 being a landmark dispersal of Greek bronzes and silvers that seeded many institutional holdings.