Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III

Mylasa was one of several Carian cities that continued striking Alexander-type tetradrachms well into the second century BC, long after the Macedonian kingdoms that originally propagated the type had fractured or fallen. These late civic issues are distinguished from royal Macedonian production by subtle control marks and monograms inserted by local magistrates — Akarca's cataloguing of the Mylasan series remains the standard reference precisely because those marks are so easily misread or overlooked. The dating of this issue, falling between the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC and the mid-170s, places it squarely in the period when Rome's reorganization of western Asia Minor left cities like Mylasa negotiating new civic identities under indirect Roman oversight.