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Æ - Theodotos
| Issuer | Klazomenai (Ionia) |
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| Year | 373 BC - 300 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Ram's head facing right, a civic emblem closely associated with Klazomenai, occupying the upper portion of the field. Below, the forepart of a winged boar facing right serves as a secondary device, referencing the city's distinctive iconographic tradition. The Greek magistrate's legend ΘΕΟΔΟΤΟΣ arcs along the upper periphery of the field, identifying this issue as struck under the authority of the magistrate Theodotos. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΘΕΟΔΟΤΟΣ |
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Klazomenai occupies an awkward place in fourth-century Ionian history — the city spent much of this period caught between Athenian ambitions, Persian suzerainty, and the dislocations following the King's Peace of 387 BC, which formally handed the Ionian Greeks back to Achaemenid control. Theodotos appears as a magistrate name on several small bronze issues from the city, suggesting civic coinage continued under Persian oversight with local administrative personnel still visibly credited.
The BMC 40 attribution places this among a sequence of fractional bronzes likely serving local market exchange rather than inter-city trade.