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Tetradrachm - Diotrephes
| Issuer | Antioch ad Meandrum |
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| Year | 90 BC - 60 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A zebu bull stands left with head facing the viewer, conveying the distinctive frontal-head pose typical of Antiochene civic coinage. The ethnic legend ANTIOXEΩN appears above the bull, while the magistrate's name ΔIOTPEΦHΣ is inscribed in the exergue along with a maeander (meander) pattern, an allusion to the river Maeander near the city. The entire design is enclosed within a laurel wreath border. |
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| Mint | Antioch ad Meandrum |
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Antioch ad Meandrum was a small Lydian city whose autonomous silver coinage was produced during the long twilight of Seleucid collapse, when civic mints across western Asia Minor asserted local authority by striking in their own names and under named magistrates. Diotrephes was one such magistrate — his name appearing as the issuing authority rather than any royal figure, reflecting the city's de facto independence during a period when neither the Seleucids nor Rome had fully consolidated control over the interior of Asia Minor.