Tetradrachm

Marathos was a Phoenician island city — connected to the mainland by a causeway — that enjoyed unusual autonomy under Seleucid rule and maintained its own civic coinage into the late 3rd century BC. This tetradrachm dates to a narrow two-year window, and the city's independent minting activity was effectively extinguished not long after when Aradus, its powerful neighbor and longtime rival, finally razed Marathos around 148 BC and absorbed its territory entirely. The enmity between the two cities is explicitly documented by Strabo.