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Stater - Hierokles
| Issuer | Kios (Bithynia) |
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| Year | 340 BC - 330 BC |
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| Currency | Attic drachm |
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| Reverse description | Prow of a war galley advancing to left, prominently featuring an apotropaic eye at the bow and the forward fighting platform (epotis) ornamented with a multi-pointed star; a club symbol appears above the prow pointing to the left, serving as a civic or magistrate's symbol. In the left field, above the ram, an eagle with folded wings stands to left. The magistrate's name is rendered in two lines of Greek legend in the right field. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Kios was a Milesian colony on the Propontis that spent much of the fourth century navigating the competing pressures of Persian satrapal authority and Macedonian expansion. This stater was struck during the magistracy of Hierokles, whose name appears as the issuing authority — a practice reflecting the considerable autonomy Greek cities in Bithynia retained over their gold coinage even under nominal Persian suzerainty. The timing places production squarely within the turbulent decade bracketed by Philip II's consolidation of Macedon and Alexander's crossing into Asia.
Kios was eventually destroyed by Philip V of Macedon in 202 BC, making fourth-century civic issues the sole numismatic record of the city's independent monetary activity.