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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Myrina |
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| Year | 155 BC - 145 BC |
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| Weight | 16.65 g |
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| Reverse description | Apollo Grynios standing facing left, nude to the waist with drapery about the lower body, holding a branch in his right hand and a necklace or phiale in his left; at his feet to the right stands an omphalos, and a laurel branch lies below. The entire composition is enclosed within a large, finely rendered laurel wreath. The ethnic legend ΜΥΡΙΝΑΙΩΝ appears vertically in the left field alongside the standing deity. |
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| Mint | Myrina |
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Myrina was among the most prolific issuers of the so-called "stephanophoric" tetradrachms produced across Aeolis and neighboring regions from the mid-second century BC onward, a coinage tradition that emerged as Athens reasserted the prestige of its own silver and civic mints throughout the Aegean scrambled to produce competitive, widely-accepted currency. The Myrinaean series is distinguished by unusually consistent die workmanship across the run, suggesting a well-organized civic mint rather than emergency or episodic production.
SNG Copenhagen 205-210 covers several obverse and reverse die combinations within this date range — individual specimens can sometimes be matched to specific die pairings documented in scholarship on the Aeolian stephanophorics.