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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Mylasa (Caria) |
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| Year | 210 BC - 190 BC |
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| Currency | Attic drachm |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned in left profile, his torso nude and draped from the waist down, seated on a throne with a footstool beneath his feet. In his outstretched right hand he holds an eagle facing right, while his left hand rests on a tall scepter. The Greek legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs vertically along the right field. To the left field appears a monogram or civic control mark, with the mint letter M visible below, identifying the issue as struck at Mylasa. The composition follows the standard posthumous Alexandrine reverse type. |
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| Mint | Mylasa / Milas, Caria, Turkey |
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Mylasa's autonomous tetradrachms struck in Alexander's name belong to a wave of posthumous issues produced across Asia Minor as cities leveraged the prestige of the Macedonian king's identity decades after his death. By the early second century BC, Mylasa was navigating the turbulent aftermath of Seleucid and later Pergamene pressure in Caria, and these coins functioned partly as a civic assertion of Hellenistic legitimacy during that scramble for regional influence. Akarca's classification distinguishes the Mylasan output from neighboring Carian mints primarily through magistrate monograms and subtle die characteristics.