Stater

Mylasa, a Carian inland city positioned along trade routes connecting the Aegean coast to the Anatolian interior, produced coinage during a period when the region operated under Achaemenid Persian suzerainty following Cyrus's conquest of Lydia in 547 BC. The city retained enough local autonomy to strike its own silver, though Persian administrative pressure shaped the weight standards adopted across Caria during these decades.

The Mylasan stater series is poorly documented in terms of specific magistrates or issuing authorities, which is characteristic of early Carian civic coinage broadly. The Weber and Lockett references both treat this type as among the earliest identifiable Mylasan issues.