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Drachm - Hermolykos
| Issuer | Myndos |
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| Year | 180 BC - 140 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Central type comprises the crown of Isis — a sun disc set between two cow horns — placed atop a pair of outward-curving grain ears that serve as its base, the whole composition evoking the fertility symbolism of the Egyptian goddess. Beneath the grain ears, a upright torch is depicted in the lower field, serving as a civic symbol or magistrate's emblem. The Greek ethnic legend ΜΥΝΔΙΩΝ and the magistrate's name ΕΡΜΟΛΥΚ are disposed around the field, divided between left and right, within a dotted border. The design reflects the strong Ptolemaic religious influence on Carian civic iconography during the second century BC. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΜΥΝΔΙΩΝ ΕΡΜΟΛΥΚ |
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Myndos, a coastal city in Caria, punched well above its political weight in the second century BC — strategically important enough that Alexander the Great besieged it in 334 BC, unsuccessfully, before pivoting to Halicarnassus. These civic drachms, issued under the magistrate name Hermolykos, belong to a period when Myndos operated under loose Rhodian commercial influence, its coinage closely tied to the Rhodian weight standard that dominated Aegean trade during this period.
The SNG von Aulock specimen remains the anchor reference for this magistrate issue, suggesting surviving examples are few.