Drachm - Pausanias

Ephesos issued coinage under its own civic authority during the period following the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC, when Rome stripped the Seleucids of their Anatolian holdings and redistributed the region largely to Pergamon. The city retained meaningful commercial autonomy, and its silver issues circulated widely across Aegean trade networks. The magistrate name Pausanias appearing on this piece is one of several known from the mid-second century civic series, placing administrative identity directly on the coinage in a practice common to Ephesian issues of this period.