Catalog
Æ - Eukles, son of Kratinos
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Meandrum (Ionia) |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Artemis facing right, wearing a stephane, with a bow and quiver visible over her shoulder. The hair is arranged in a formal style characteristic of Hellenistic civic coinage of Ionia. The portrait is rendered in high relief with fine classical workmanship typical of the magistrate series of Magnesia ad Meandrum. |
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| Mint | Magnesia ad Meandrum |
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum held an unusual place among Ionian cities — it was the site of one of the ancient world's most celebrated grants of *asylia*, the inviolable sanctuary status conferred on the sanctuary of Artemis Leukophryene following a series of epiphanies reported in 221 BC. The city spent years dispatching embassies across the Greek world to have this status recognized, and the administrative machinery behind those campaigns — magistrates, civic officials, named individuals like Eukles son of Kratinos — is precisely what appears on the bronze civic coinage of this period.