Continuity and Rupture in the Early Hellenistic Coinage of Caria
Résumé
The end of Hecatomnid rule and the arrival of Alexander the Great, then his successors, signaled a period of change in Caria's coin production. This article examines the various changes that took place during this transitional period and affected the mints in different ways. However, it was not a time of complete upheaval, and old habits continued to be maintained, as this article endeavours to show. This complex context also raises the thorny question of “why and for whom the cities minted coins”.