Drachm - Zenodotos and Mandragoros

Samos maintained its own silver coinage through much of the fifth and fourth centuries, but the magistrate-signed issues — naming individual officials responsible for the emission — represent a relatively brief administrative practice. Zenodotos and Mandragoros appear together on a small cluster of dies, suggesting a single jointly-supervised issue rather than sequential tenures. The SNG Kayhan 665 reference places this squarely within the post-413 period when Samos had rebuilt enough civic autonomy, following the Athenian disaster in Sicily and the subsequent Ionian revolt, to reassert independent monetary production.