Drachm - Theodotos

Ephesos operated under Seleucid authority through much of the early second century BC before shifting into the Attalid orbit following Rome's reorganization of western Asia Minor after Apameia in 188 BC. Theodotos served as a magistrate responsible for authorizing this issue — his name appearing as a guarantee of weight and metal quality at a mint that had been producing coinage continuously since the Archaic period.

The chronological spread of this type reflects genuine uncertainty in the scholarship; pinning individual magistrate series within the 188–150 BC window remains contested.