Tetradrachm

Myrina, an Aeolian city on the western coast of Asia Minor, struck this tetradrachm as part of the so-called "New Style" stephanophoric coinage that spread across the eastern Aegean during the second century BC — a regional monetary fashion that followed, and was likely influenced by, Athens' own stephanophoric reform of around 164 BC. The city's coinage from this period is catalogued by Sacks, whose die study remains the primary reference for sequencing the series. Relatively few dies are known for Myrina's output, suggesting a modest but sustained civic mint operation rather than any large emergency or commercial issue.