Drachm - Lysagoras

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.