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Klazomenai, an Ionian city on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, struck gold coinage only during a narrow window of political and military pressure — the decades following the King's Peace of 387 BC, which handed the Ionian Greek cities back to Persian control and forced local authorities into uneasy fiscal maneuvering. Gold issues from Klazomenai are rare precisely because the city reverted to silver as its standard whenever Persian tribute demands eased.

BMC Greek #17 places this among a small group of confirmed specimens, and the type is underrepresented in major collections relative to the city's silver coinage.