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Didrachm - Grylis
| Issuer | Ephesos (Ionia) |
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| Year | 245 BC - 202 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Artemis facing right, her hair elaborately arranged and bound with a laurel wreath, loose tresses falling behind the neck. The goddess is depicted in the refined Hellenistic style characteristic of the Ephesian mint, with fine facial features and a graceful profile. No legend appears on the obverse field. |
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| Reverse description | A stag kneeling to the right in the proskynesis pose, head raised and turned to face forward, its branching antlers prominently rendered. A bee symbol, the civic emblem of Ephesos, appears to the upper right of the stag, with a magistrate's monogram (ΦΕ) below it. The ethnic inscription ΕΦΕΣΙΩΝ and the magistrate's name ΓPYΛIΣ are arranged vertically in the left field. |
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Ephesos struck these didrachms during a period when the city passed repeatedly between Ptolemaic and Seleucid control — a political instability that directly shaped the city's coinage authority and mint output. The "Grylis" designation refers to a magistrate name appearing in the coin's inscription, one of several named officials under whose authority Ephesian silver was issued during this stretch of the third and early second centuries.
The BMC 94 reference places this among a well-documented but numerically limited series.