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Tetradrachm - Menekles
| Issuer | Alabanda |
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| Year | 197 BC - 188 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Alabanda, a Carian city whose wealth derived partly from its position on trade routes through the Maeander valley, issued tetradrachms in the name of magistrates — Menekles being one of a small series of named officials whose coins survive in limited numbers. This practice of magistrate-named coinage was common in Hellenistic Caria but makes die-linking studies particularly useful for sequencing issues within the series.
The dating bracket places this squarely within the turbulent aftermath of Rome's defeat of Antiochus III at Magnesia in 190 BC, after which Carian cities scrambled to reposition their political allegiances.