Stater

Mylasa was among the more influential inland cities of Caria, and its early silver coinage predates the region's absorption into the Achaemenid satrapal system under Hecatomnid control. These staters belong to a period when Carian dynasts were asserting independent monetary authority before Persian administrative pressure consolidated coinage production across the region. The Rosen reference places this piece within a well-documented private collection that shaped scholarly understanding of early Carian issues for decades.