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Drachm - Mikion
| Issuer | Rhodes |
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| Year | 84 BC - 30 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Rhodes |
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Rhodes lost its status as a free port in 167 BC when Rome transferred that privilege to Delos, collapsing Rhodian customs revenues and triggering a prolonged economic contraction. This drachm series belongs to the recovery period that followed, during which the island's magistrate-signed coinage system — with individual officials lending their names to issues — continued functioning as it had for centuries, providing a rare continuity of civic monetary administration through Roman provincial absorption.
Mikion is attested as one of the magistrate names from the late Rhodian civic series. The dating range spans the final decades before the island's full integration into Roman provincial arrangements under Augustus.