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.
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.