The Ionian cities have achieved great prosperity…

The Ionian cities have achieved great prosperity by the end of the seventh century BCE, through their trading enterprises, their colonization efforts, and their manufacture of ceramics, textiles, and metalware. (The date of the earliest coinage has been fairly securely fixed at about 600 BCE; the crucial discovery in 1951 will be the excavation and scientific examination of the foundation deposit of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in Anatolia.)