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Phocaea

Phocaea was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia famous for its electrum coinage.

Kind: city-state
Region: Ionia, Asia
Recorded period: 600 BC – present

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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Hecte: Head of Omphale (obverse); Incuse Square (Cleveland Museum of Art 1916.973)

387–326 BCE

This very small electrum coin shows the Lydian queen Omphale on the obverse. She can be distinguished from Herakles, whose lion-skin she wears, by her earring. Also visible, over her shoulder, is the hero’s club, while beneath her swims a small seal— phôkê in Greek, a punning reference to Phokaia, where the coin was…

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