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.
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.