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Trihemiobol - Archepolis
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Meandrum |
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| Year | 459 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | A P |
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| Mintage | ND (-459) |
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum's coinage of this period is bound up in one of the more unusual arrangements in Aegean political history. Following the Persian Wars, the satrap Themistocles — the Athenian general who had engineered the Greek victory at Salamis — was granted Magnesia as one of three cities whose revenues would support him in exile. His son Archepolis inherited that arrangement, and this trihemiobol almost certainly belongs to the civic coinage struck under that administration, making it a physical artifact of a disgraced Athenian's Persian pensioner household.