Catalog
Drachm - Lysagoras
| Issuer | Priene (Ionia) |
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| Year | 290 BC - 250 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Priene |
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Priene's coinage from this period reflects the city's complicated position between Seleucid and Ptolemaic ambitions following the fragmentation of Alexander's empire. The magistrate name Lysagoras appears on a narrow run of issues, suggesting a short tenure — these magistrate-signed drachms functioned as the city's primary instrument of local commercial exchange at a moment when Priene was physically rebuilding itself, having been relocated to its current hillside site by Alexander himself only decades earlier.