Hemiobol - Archepolis

Archepolis, son of Themistocles, governed Magnesia ad Meandrum in the 460s BC after his father accepted the Persian grant of the city — along with Myus and Lampsacus — from Artaxerxes I. These tiny fractional issues bearing his name are among the very few Greek civic coins to carry the name of a ruling dynast rather than the city alone, a direct reflection of the quasi-tyrannical authority the Themistoclid family exercised there. Archepolis is otherwise a marginal figure in the ancient sources; the coins are essentially his only surviving historical footprint.