Diobol - Uncertain Dynast

Lycian dynastic coinage of the fifth century BC was produced by semi-autonomous rulers operating under loose Achaemenid suzerainty — local enough to mint in their own names, subordinate enough that precise attribution remains contested two and a half millennia later. Without a readable dynast name, this piece falls into the broad unattributed category that has frustrated scholars since Babelon first catalogued the series.

The Traité II reference places it among a cluster of issues Babelon grouped by fabric and type rather than ruler, a methodology that subsequent die studies have only partially refined.