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Drachm
| Issuer | Myrhina |
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| Year | 160 BC - 143 BC |
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| Weight | 3.67 g |
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| Reverse lettering | MYPINAIΩN |
| Edge | Plain |
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Myrina, an Aeolian city on the western coast of Asia Minor, struck these drachms during a period when the region was nominally under Attalid influence following Rome's reorganization of western Anatolia after the defeat of Antiochus III. The city maintained enough autonomous authority to produce a recognizable civic coinage, though the series is modest in scope and relatively short-lived.
The Sacks corpus remains the primary scholarly reference for Myrinan coinage, and the die study it contains places this type firmly within the mid-second century BC civic output. Weber 5556 and the de Luynes specimen represent the handful of well-documented examples that have anchored the chronology.