Æ - Eukles, son of Kratinos

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.