Stater

Mylasa, an inland Carian city under Persian-era influence, produced coinage during a period when the region's dynasts were navigating complex obligations to Achaemenid overlords while maintaining distinctly local monetary traditions. Carian staters of this type circulated across a network of mercenary payments and regional trade that extended well into the Aegean world — Carian soldiers appear in Egyptian and Persian records alike as paid fighters whose wages required portable, trusted silver.

The fabric of Mylasan issues tends toward an irregular, almost lumpy flan, a characteristic of the workshop rather than a defect.