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Tetradrachm - Isokrates
| Issuer | Alabanda |
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| Year | 200 BC - 190 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Pegasos rearing to the right, depicted with powerful musculature and large, outstretched wings, the forelimbs raised in dynamic rearing posture. The Greek ethnic legend ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ arches above the figure in the upper field, identifying the issuing civic authority of Antiocheia-on-the-Maeander (Alabanda). Beneath the winged horse, the magistrate's name ΙΣΟΚΡΑΤΗΣ is inscribed in the lower field in clear Greek majuscules, serving as the eponymous magistrate identifier for this issue. The design reflects the Pegasos iconography widely adopted by Carian civic coinages of the early second century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 190 BC) |
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Alabanda, a city in Caria, enjoyed a brief but meaningful period of autonomy in the early second century BC, caught between the declining Seleucid grip on Asia Minor and the rising influence of Rhodes and Rome. This tetradrachm belongs to a civic coinage series issued under the magistrate name Isokrates — one of several named officials whose tenures help sequence these issues. The series aligns with Alabanda's political maneuvering during the Roman-Seleucid War, which concluded at Apamea in 188 BC and reshaped every city in western Anatolia.