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| Issuer | Phaselis (Lycia) |
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| Year | 190 BC - 167 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Athena standing to the left, helmeted and draped, extending her right arm forward in a gesture of offering or presentation. A large Greek letter alpha (Α) appears prominently in the central field to the right of the figure, likely serving as a civic control mark or denomination indicator. The goddess is depicted in a striding or standing posture with her characteristic martial bearing. The reverse is enclosed within a beaded border. The monogram ΦΑ, abbreviated from ΦΑΣΗ (Phaselis), together with the control letter, identifies the issuing city and series. |
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| Mint | Phaselis Mint |
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Phaselis occupied an unusual position among Lycian cities — geographically within the region but politically resistant to full absorption into the Lycian League, which granted it a degree of autonomous coinage rights that most neighboring mints did not enjoy. This bronze was struck during a period when the city thrived as a transit port between the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean, its harbor revenues funding civic institutions and, evidently, a sustained minting program. The date range corresponds broadly with the interval between Rome's defeat of Antiochus III and the Rhodian administration imposed on Lycia after 167 BC, after which local coinage became considerably more constrained.