Tetradrachm - Apollodoros, son of Kallikrates

Magnesia ad Maeandrum occupied an awkward geopolitical position throughout the second century BC — technically free under the terms Rome extracted from the Seleucids after Apamea in 188 BC, yet increasingly pulled into Roman clientage as the Attalids of Pergamon extended their influence across western Asia Minor. The magistrate name Apollodoros, son of Kallikrates, places this issue within a civic coinage tradition that Magnesia used partly to assert a municipal identity it was rapidly losing to regional powers.

The SNG Copenhagen and BMC references anchor this firmly within the well-documented but modestly studied Magnesian series.