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Diobol - Mithrapata
| Issuer | Dynasts of Lycia (Achaemenid Satrapies) |
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| Year | 390 BC - 370 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Lycian |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mithrapata ruled as one of the more aggressive dynasts of Lycia during a period when the region nominally answered to Achaemenid Persia but functioned in practice as a collection of fiercely independent principalities. His name — compounding the Iranian deity Mithra with "pata" (protector) — reflects the hybrid Persian-Lycian identity of the ruling class, yet his coinage asserts a distinctly local authority. The diobol denomination served interregional trade along the southwestern Anatolian coast rather than any imperial fiscal system.