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Tetradrachm - Theognetos
| Issuer | Miletos |
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| Year | 350 BC - 340 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Lion standing left with head turned to face right in a heraldic pose, rendered in the bold, confident style associated with Milesian civic coinage of the fourth century BC. A six-pointed star appears in the upper field above the lion's back, serving as a traditional Milesian civic symbol. The civic monogram MI appears to the left of the lion in the field, identifying the issuing city. The magistrate's name ΘEOΓNHTOΣ is inscribed in the exergue below the groundline, serving as an administrative identifier for this emission. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΘEOΓNHTOΣ |
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Miletos had long operated one of the most active mints in the Aegean, but by the mid-fourth century the city was navigating the competing pressures of Persian satrapal authority and fading Delian League influence. The magistrate name Theognetos appearing on this issue places it within a series where individual officials took direct responsibility for a coinage run — a practice that gave Milesian silver its unusually traceable administrative history compared to anonymous civic issues of the same period.