Hello,
I would like to request the addition of a new issuer:
- the name of the issuer in English (and if possible also in French and Spanish)
En: Phocaea
Fr: Phocée
Sp: Focea
It should be under Roman Provinces > Asia > Smyrna
- its Wikidata code (for example, Q854 for Sri Lanka)
Q428732
- if there are no entries yet on Numista, the link to an auction site or a reference catalogue presenting at least one coin or banknote from this issuer
https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?lot=49&p=lot&sid=6934
- if they already exist in the catalogue, the link of one or more Numista records that you want to classify under this issuer
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/contributions/voir_ajout.php?id=7556767
- if necessary, the list of other issuers to be linked by “see also” links (for example the Holy Roman Empire is linked to the Carolingian Empire)
Phokaia (Ancient Greece)
- if possible, a brief introduction presenting the history of this issuer with any numismatic considerations useful to the reader
The Phocaeans were among the earliest in the world to use coins as money, minting electrum staters before 550 BC. During the Hellenistic period, it fell under Seleucid, then Attalid rule. In the Roman period, the town was a manufacturing centre for ceramic vessels and issued its own provincial bronze coins starting with the rule of Augustus.
