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Æ22 - Menodotos and Sillon
| Issuer | Akmoneia |
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| Year | 148 BC - 133 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena in right profile, wearing a crested Attic helmet adorned with a long flowing plume trailing behind the neck. The goddess is depicted with fine facial detail including a well-modelled eye, straight nose, and parted lips, the cheek guard of the helmet raised. A draped bust is visible at the truncation, rendered in the Hellenistic artistic tradition characteristic of Phrygian civic coinage of the mid-second century BC. The field is otherwise plain, with no legend on the obverse. |
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| Reverse description | Eagle with wings spread, standing three-quarters facing to right, perched upon a thunderbolt depicted horizontally across the lower field. Two six-petalled star rosettes flank the eagle symmetrically in the left and right fields. A Greek legend in two lines is inscribed in the lower exergual area, giving the names of the magistrates Menodotos and Sillon, while the ethnic legend of the city of Akmoneia appears partially along the upper border of the coin. The composition is bold and well-centred, typical of the civic bronze coinage of Phrygia during the late Attalid period. |
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Akmoneia was a Phrygian city whose civic coinage from this period was issued under named magistrates — here Menodotos and Sillon, whose pairing appears across a small cluster of dies suggesting a single, concentrated issue rather than ongoing production. The city sat within the upper Maeander valley and maintained enough institutional stability under Attalid suzerainty to run an active civic mint, though that arrangement ended decisively when Attalos III bequeathed his kingdom to Rome in 133 BC, making this issue one of the last struck before Akmoneia was absorbed into the new province of Asia.