Tetradrachm - Moschos

Smyrna's tetradrachms of this period were struck under the magistrate name Moschos, one of several eponymous officials whose names appear on the city's coinage during the late second century BC — a period when Smyrna was consolidating its status as a leading city of the Roman province of Asia. The city had declared loyalty to Rome early, reportedly sending a garment off its citizens' backs to clothe Roman soldiers during the war against Antiochus III, a gesture Rome did not forget.

Milne's corpus and Waddington's earlier publication both document this magistrate issue, though die linkage studies remain sparse.