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Tetradrachm - Solon
| Issuer | Antioch ad Meandrum |
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| Year | 90 BC - 60 BC |
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| Weight | 16.66 g |
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| Reverse description | An eagle standing left atop a thunderbolt, its wings partially spread, head turned to the right in a vigilant pose — a device emblematic of Hellenistic civic coinage in Asia Minor. To the right of the eagle, the ethnic legend ΑΝΤΙ / ΟΧΕΩΝ is inscribed in two lines within the field. To the lower left, the magistrate's name ΣΟΛ appears, identifying the issuing authority. The entire design is framed by a distinctive meander (key-pattern) border, a hallmark of coinage from Antioch ad Meandrum. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΣΟΛ |
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Antioch ad Meandrum was a small Carian city whose civic coinage leaned heavily on the prestige of Athenian legal tradition — Solon being invoked not as a local figure but as a symbol of lawful civic order at a moment when the region was caught between the collapsing Seleucid sphere and the expanding ambitions of Rome and Mithridates VI of Pontus. These tetradrachms were struck during a window of fragile autonomy, roughly coinciding with the First Mithridatic War and its chaotic aftermath.
HN Online 1530 documents the type but examples remain genuinely scarce in the trade.