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Drachm
| Issuer | Mylasa |
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| Year | 180 BC - 140 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SNG Copenhagen#721, HN Online#425 |
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| Reverse description | A fully open rose bloom depicted facing, with large spreading petals and a prominent central calyx, rendered in high relief. To the right of the rose stem appears a budding secondary blossom on a curved stalk, a hallmark device of Rhodian-influenced Carian coinage. The design fills the flan with no surrounding legend, the rose being the civic emblem closely associated with the region's numismatic tradition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mylasa was one of the dominant cities of Caria, and its silver coinage of this period reflects the city's semi-independent status under the loosening grip of Seleucid and then Rhodian influence following the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. The Rhodian peraia — the mainland territories administered by Rhodes after Rome handed them over — created an uneasy political environment in which Carian cities like Mylasa asserted local identity partly through coinage. This issue falls squarely in that transitional window.