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Rosen 109 remains unattributed to a specific mint, a situation that reflects the broader difficulty of fifth-century Ionian coinage — numerous small coastal poleis struck near-identical fractional silver with little distinguishing iconography and no inscriptions to anchor them. The years bracketing this issue correspond to the period immediately following the Ionian cities' reabsorption into the Achaemenid sphere after Xerxes' campaigns, when local civic minting continued under Persian tolerance but without the political confidence to assert strong identity.