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Didrachm
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Maeandrum |
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| Year | 350 BC - 325 BC |
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| Diameter | 20 mm |
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| Reverse description | A bull charging and butting to the left in an aggressive posture, with lowered head and raised hindquarters, rendered with considerable anatomical detail. The legend ΜΑΓΝ appears in the upper field and ΔΙΟΠΕΙΘΗ along the lower field, identifying the city of Magnesia and the magistrate Diopeithes. The entire design is enclosed within a square meander border composed of interlocking geometric rectilinear patterns, a distinctive civic emblem of Magnesia ad Maeandrum. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΜΑΓΝ ΔΙΟΠΕΙΘΗ |
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum occupied a strategically awkward position in the Maeander River valley, cycling through Persian, Macedonian, and eventually Seleucid overlordship across the fourth century BC. This issue falls squarely in the transitional decades when Persian satrapal authority was crumbling but Alexander's campaigns had not yet fully reorganized the region's political economy. The city retained enough autonomous minting capacity to produce civic coinage, which was not guaranteed for every polis under Achaemenid influence.
SNG Kayhan 410 places this piece within a well-documented Turkish collection hoard grouping, useful for die-linkage studies of the Magnesian series.