Tetradrachm - Artemidoros

Kolophon's silver coinage of this period was struck under the broader framework of the Cistophoric monetary zone that Rome allowed to flourish across western Asia Minor after Magnesia in 190 BC — but this issue sits outside that system, maintaining the Attic-weight tetradrachm standard at a moment when cistophori were rapidly displacing it. The magistrate name Artemidoros appears across a small cluster of dies, suggesting a brief tenure or a tightly controlled issue rather than sustained production.