Tetradrachm

Myrina was an Aeolian city on the western coast of Asia Minor that began striking these large silver pieces following the collapse of Seleucid authority in the region — a vacuum filled partly by Pergamene expansion and partly by Rome's increasingly direct involvement in Anatolian affairs after Apamea in 188 BC. The city's coinage flourished precisely because it was not a major power; autonomous civic issues of this type served local commercial needs when larger dynastic currencies grew unreliable.

The Sacks corpus remains the standard reference for Myrinaean tetradrachms, with die studies suggesting a relatively compact issue across this period rather than sustained mass production.