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Siglos - Aris... Peiraeeus
| Issuer | Amisos |
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| Year | 435 BC - 370 BC |
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| Weight | 5.75 g |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΡ ΙΣ ΠΕΙΡΑ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Amisos, the Black Sea port city on the southern Pontic coast, operated under shifting political dominance throughout the fifth and fourth centuries — Athenian settlers established a clerouchy there around 440 BC, and the city briefly took the name Peiraeeus in an attempt to affiliate itself culturally and commercially with Athens during this period. The siglos-weight standard it adopted reflects that Athenian commercial orbit rather than the Persian weight system dominant inland.
HGC 7, 229 places this type firmly within that Athenian-influenced civic coinage phase, before Pontic and later Cappadocian pressure reasserted themselves over the city's monetary policy.