circa 200-100 BCE
Æ 17mm, 3,97g
Obv: Radiate head of Sozon(?) right
Rev: Apollo standing left, holding bow and resting elbow on column to right; monogram to left
SNG Copenhagen 47-9; SNG von Aulock 4273-4
The ruins of Arykanda today are in five terraces on top of a mountain. Due to their remote location, they’ve been well-preserved and are high on my list of ruins to visit and photograph.
Arykanda isn’t mentioned much in the literature, though there is one passage where they supposedly got into debt due to their intemperence (they were a bunch of drunkards?) and wound up leaning on Mithridates to help them, which likely didn’t turn out well.
Although the city was populated from the second millenium, it wasn’t until Roman times that it became prosperous, and thus it’s no surprise that’s when it began minting coins, though they are not common.
Today, an amphitheater, many houses, tombs, and mosaics are still visible.