Myrina, Aeolis, AR Diobol. 1.09 gr. 420-380 BC. Obv: Head of female left, hair in a sakkos. Rev: MYRI-NAWN, Stag grazing left in incuse square. Courtesy of The New York Sale, auction XVII, 2008, lot 77. Sold for $1,000 Only known specimen(?). The attribution of this so far unknown issue to the Aeolian Myrina and not to Myrina on Lemnos is because only bronzes from the end of the Hellenistic period are known. On the other hand, Myrina, Aeolis struck silver coins of Alexander types at the end of the 4th c. BC. and quite a varied coinage from the 2nd c. BC. onwards. The style of the head on the obv. makes a date to the end of the classical period plausible, one could compare it with issues of Mytilene (cf. Bodenstedt 90 or 109) or Phocaea (cf. Bodenstedt 94 or 162). The iconography of the rev. is not surprising: the stag is the symbol of Artemis, of whom worship is attested. The goddess is represented on hemidrachms of about 300 BC. (cf. ZfN 3 [1876], pl. VIII, 17).