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Didrachm - Diogenes
| Issuer | Miletos |
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| Year | 250 BC - 180 BC |
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| Value | 2 Drachms |
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| Reverse description | A lion standing left with head turned back to the right, rendered in a bold and naturalistic Hellenistic style. A star appears in the upper field above the lion's back. To the left of the lion, the civic monogram of Miletos (MI) is placed above the letter E. The magistrate's name ΔIOΓENHΣ appears in the exergue, identifying this issue with the eponymous magistrate Diogenes. The composition follows the standard Milesian reverse type for didrachms of this series. |
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| Mint | Miletos |
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Miletos, long stripped of political independence by this period, operated under Seleucid authority for much of the third century before passing into Pergamene and eventually Roman spheres. The city retained the right to strike its own civic silver — a privilege jealously maintained — and the didrachm series bearing the magistrate name Diogenes falls within this contested interval, when the mint's output tracked the shifting fortunes of western Anatolia's competing powers rather than any single patron.