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Æ - Hermippos, son of Artemon
| Issuer | Lebedos |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Athena depicted standing to the right, positioned atop a large naval prow, helmeted and draped, holding a long spear upright in her right hand and what appears to be a trophy in her left. The figure is rendered in a robust Hellenistic style typical of Ionian civic coinage. The abbreviated civic ethnic ΛΕ (for Lebedos) appears in the field flanking the central type. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΡΜΙΠΠΟΥ ΑΡΤΕΜΩΝ |
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Lebedos was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, located on a small peninsula south of Colophon. By the second century BC it had been thoroughly overshadowed — Antigonus I had forcibly synoikized much of its population into Antigoneia, and later Lysimachus relocated residents again to Ephesus. That the city retained enough civic infrastructure to issue bronze coinage with named magistrates like Hermippos, son of Artemon, indicates a partial recovery of local autonomy under Seleucid and later Pergamene influence.