Æ17 - Eupolemos

Eupolemos was a Macedonian officer who seized control of Karia around 315 BC, initially as a subordinate of Antigonos Monophthalmos during the wars of the Diadochi. His authority over the region was contested and fragile — when Antigonos fell at Ipsos in 301 BC, local dynasts across Asia Minor scrambled to reposition themselves, and Eupolemos appears to have maintained a degree of autonomous control at Mylasa through that turbulence. These bronzes represent one of the few tangible traces of his administration, a minor dynast whose name survives almost entirely through numismatic evidence rather than literary sources.