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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Klazomenai (Ionia) |
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| Year | 160 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Zeus Soter Epiphanes in three-quarter view facing slightly left, depicted in Hellenistic military dress including cuirass, pteruges, and greaves, holding a tall scepter or long spear upright in his right hand and a Nike or patera in his outstretched left hand. The figure stands on a ground line at the base of the flan. The Greek legend ΔΙΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ reads vertically in two columns flanking the central figure, with ΚΛΑΖΟ inscribed horizontally in the exergue, identifying the issuing city of Klazomenai. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Klazomenai's silver tetradrachm coinage of the mid-second century BC was struck under the broader monetary conventions of the Stephanephoric type, a standard adopted by numerous Ionian cities following the decline of Athenian imperial coinage. By 160 BC, Klazomenai had long been a city with an unusual geographic history — originally built on the mainland, its inhabitants relocated to a nearby island to escape Persian pressure, and Alexander the Great later connected it to the coast via a causeway. That instability never fully resolved itself, and the city's civic coinage reflects periodic interruptions in output across the Hellenistic period.