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Tetradrachm - Demainos
| Issuer | Miletos |
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| Year | 170 BC - 160 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Apollo facing left, rendered in fine Hellenistic style with delicately modeled facial features. The hair is elaborately arranged, gathered in voluminous braided and rolled locks across the crown of the head, bound with a taenia and falling in loose curling tresses at the nape of the neck. The portrait fills much of the flan, with the neck truncation at the lower edge of the field. No legend appears on the obverse. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΔΗΜΑΙΝΟΣ |
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Miletos struck these tetradrachms during a period when the city operated under the shadow of Seleucid and then Pergamene influence, navigating its autonomy through carefully managed coinage. The magistrate name Demainos appears on a narrow range of dies within the series, placing this piece within a specific administrative moment rather than a broad civic program.
The Boston MFA specimen serves as the anchor reference for this magistrate's issues — a thin evidentiary base that makes die-linked examples unusually significant for establishing sequence and output volume.