Tetradrachm - Erasippos son of Aristeos

Magnesia ad Maeandrum's civic tetradrachm series of the mid-second century BC emerged after the city was released from Seleucid control following Rome's defeat of Antiochus III at Magnesia in 190 BC — an irony of geography that the decisive battle bearing the city's name was fought on its own doorstep. The magistrate name Erasippos son of Aristeos places this piece within a well-documented sequence of stephanophoric issues catalogued across SNG von Aulock and the BMC, where the naming of annual magistrates allows approximate sequencing within the series.

The stephanophoric type was adopted by numerous Ionian and Lydian cities in this period as a marker of autonomous civic coinage — a deliberate choice carrying weight after decades of Seleucid-controlled minting.