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Æ - Eukles, son of Kratinos
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Meandrum (Ionia) |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SNG Copenhagen#852 , SNG von Aulock#2044 , BMC Greek#46 |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the winged goddess of victory, advancing briskly to the right in flowing drapery, her large wings spread behind her. She holds a palm branch in her left hand and extends a wreath in her right hand. The Greek ethnic ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ is inscribed to the left of the figure, with the magistrate names EYKΛHΣ and KPATINOΣ disposed to the right, identifying the issuing officials Eukles son of Kratinos. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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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.