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Drachm
| Issuer | Miletos |
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| Year | 200 BC - 190 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine Hellenistic style with long wavy locks falling behind the neck and a prominent laurel wreath crowning the brow. The facial features are delicately modeled, with a straight nose, slightly parted lips, and a refined profile characteristic of late third-century Ionian die engraving. The flan is slightly irregular, with the portrait well centered and in high relief. |
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| Reverse description | A lion standing right with its head turned back in the distinctive Milesian type, rendered with careful attention to musculature and mane detail. A six-pointed star appears above the lion's back, serving as a civic symbol of Miletos. In the right field, magistrate monograms are present. The magistrate's name MEΛANΘIOΣ is inscribed in the field, identifying this issue within the Milesian drachm series of the early second century BC. |
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Miletos had been minting the lion/sunburst type almost without interruption since the archaic period, making it one of the longest-running coin designs in Greek numismatic history. By the early second century BC, the city was operating under Seleucid influence following the campaigns of Antiochus III, a political reality that left surprisingly little mark on the coinage itself — the civic types continued largely unchanged.
Magistrate names appearing on issues of this period allow for relative sequencing, though absolute dating within the 200–190 BC window remains debated among specialists.