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1⁄6 Stater - Perikles and Vedrei
| Issuer | Lycia, Dynasts of |
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| Year | 380 BC - 370 BC |
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| Value | ⅙ Silver Stater (1/2) |
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| Obverse description | A lion in dynamic motion leaps rightward, seizing a bull that collapses to the left beneath it; the predator-prey group is rendered with vigorous archaic energy typical of Lycian dynastic coinage. A partial Lycian inscription appears in the lower field below the group, visible as partial letters along the exergual line. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Perikles was the most powerful of the Lycian dynasts, controlling much of the region during the 380s and 370s BC and maintaining enough independence from the Achaemenid satrapal system to strike his own coinage — a political assertion that few Lycian rulers managed with such consistency or volume. Vedrei, the secondary authority named on this issue, remains poorly documented; the pairing likely reflects a subordinate local arrangement rather than co-rule in any formal sense.
The fractional denominations in Lycian silver are notoriously difficult to attribute with precision, and the SNG von Aulock specimens remain the primary comparative reference for this type.