Tetradrachm - Marsyas

Samos operated its mint with unusual independence for an Aegean island under shifting imperial pressures — caught between Athenian hegemony and Persian interference throughout the late fifth and early fourth centuries. The Marsyas type tetradrachms fall squarely in a period when Samos was expelled of its entire citizen population by Athens in 365 BC and replaced with Athenian cleruchs, making coins struck toward the end of this range products of a politically hollow civic authority.

The absence of a Barron catalog number suggests this piece sits outside the firmly attributed sequence — either an unpublished die pairing or a specimen known only from a handful of examples.