Didrachm - Phileanax

Kos operated under shifting political pressures throughout the mid-fourth century, caught between Macedonian expansion and the residual influence of the Second Athenian League. The magistrate name Phileanax appearing on this issue places it within a brief administrative window when Koan coinage underwent a deliberate reassertion of civic identity — the didrachm weight standard itself a conscious alignment with broader Aegean commercial norms rather than Persian-influenced fractions.

HGC 6, 1305 treats this as a scarce type. The Copenhagen specimen remains the primary reference point for die comparison.