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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Myrina |
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| Year | 155 BC - 145 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Apollo Grynios standing right in full figure, extending a phiale in his raised right hand and holding a filleted laurel branch in his left. The ethnic inscription MYPINAIΩN appears to the left of the figure, accompanied by a monogram also to the left. At the feet of Apollo rest an omphalos and an amphora, symbols associated with the god's oracular cult at Grynion. The entire composition is enclosed within a laurel wreath border, a hallmark of the Myrina civic coinage of this period. |
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| Mint | Myrina (Aeolis) |
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Myrina, an Aeolian city on the western coast of Asia Minor, was among the leagues of cities granted autonomy under Attalid patronage in the second century BC. Its tetradrachms from this period follow the Stephanephoric convention — a wreath-framed type adopted widely across Asia Minor as cities sought to project civic identity within a Pergamene political orbit without directly imitating royal coinage.
Sacks 11 places this emission within a tightly dated sequence tied to magistrate names recorded in the exergue. The dies are relatively few, suggesting a limited civic issue rather than sustained commercial production.