1⁄48 Stater

Mylasa was among the earliest minting authorities in Caria, a region where Greek and Anatolian monetary traditions overlapped in ways that produced some of the smallest fractional denominations in the ancient world. At 1/48 of a stater, this piece served real transactional purposes in a local economy where electrum fractions functioned alongside — and often in competition with — Lydian royal issues from nearby Sardis.

The Weidauer typology for early Anatolian electrum remains the foundational reference for attributing these fractions, though the natural variation in electrum alloy composition across Mylasan issues complicates die-linkage studies even now.