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Drachm
| Issuer | Lycian League |
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| Year | 520 BC - 480 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (520 BC - 480 BC) |
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The Lycian League's early coinage belongs to a period when Lycia operated as a semi-autonomous satrapy under Achaemenid Persian oversight, struck local silver while nominally subject to Darius I and later Xerxes. These drachms were not federal coinage in any later administrative sense — the formalized League structure came centuries later. What circulated here was dynastic civic silver, its production driven by local rulers who retained striking rights as a Persian concession, likely to facilitate tribute payment and mercenary wages during the campaigns that culminated in the Persian Wars.