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Æ10
| Issuer | Mallos |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Apotropaic Gorgoneion depicted full face, with serpentine hair radiating outward, wide staring eyes, and the characteristic grimacing expression with protruding tongue, a motif commonly employed as a protective device on Cilician civic bronzes of this period. The abbreviated ethnic legend MAΛ appears in the field, identifying the issuing city of Mallos. The type is executed in a bold, schematic style consistent with small-denomination hammered provincial coinage of the late fifth to mid-fourth century BC. |
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| Mint | Mallos, Cilicia |
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Mallos occupied a strategically contested position at the mouth of the Pyramos River in Cilicia, and the city's semi-autonomous coinage reflects its persistent struggle against Achaemenid administrative pressure during this period. The SNG Levante 172 attribution places this small bronze firmly within a local civic series that predates Alexander's sweep through Cilicia in 333 BC, after which Mallian coinage effectively ceased as an independent tradition.