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Didrachm - Dionysios
| Issuer | Miletos |
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| Year | 260 BC - 250 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (260 BC - 250 BC) |
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Miletos had long been one of the most productive mint cities on the Aegean coast, but by the mid-third century BC the city was operating under the shadow of Seleucid dominance following Antiochus I's consolidation of western Asia Minor. Civic issues like this didrachm reflect Miletos's retained autonomy in local monetary matters even as broader political control shifted between the Seleucids and, briefly, Ptolemaic interests during the Syrian Wars.
The magistrate name Dionysios appears on issues catalogued by Deppert-Lippitz as part of a sequential magistrate series, suggesting the city rotated responsible officials through mint oversight — a bureaucratic practice well-attested at Miletos specifically.