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Drachm - Artemon
| Issuer | Miletos |
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| Year | 340 BC - 325 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing left, rendered in fine archaic-classical style with finely detailed hair swept back in undulating waves and bound with a laurel wreath; the facial features are delicately modeled with a straight profile, almond-shaped eye, and slightly parted lips. The portrait fills the flan with confidence and artistic refinement characteristic of late 4th-century Milesian coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Miletos issued this small silver drachm during a period when the city was navigating the competing pressures of Persian satrapal authority and the advancing Macedonian campaign under Alexander. The magistrate name Artemon appearing on the coin places it within a civic coinage tradition that Miletos maintained with striking consistency even as political control of the city changed hands in 334 BC.
Deppert-Lippitz catalogued this type from a relatively small corpus of die-linked specimens, making individual examples useful for ongoing studies of Milesian mint output in the late Achaemenid period.