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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Lycian League |
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| Year | 520 BC - 480 BC |
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| Diameter | 9 mm |
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| Reverse description | Incuse square of mill-sail or quadripartite type deeply punched into the reverse field, divided into four triangular sections by raised diagonal ridges meeting at the center, creating a windmill or stellate pattern. The incuse punch is rectangular and set within a slightly raised border on the plain silver flan. This reverse type is characteristic of early Lycian League hemidrachms of the Archaic period and represents the standard punch technique employed by moneyers of western Asia Minor prior to the adoption of fully pictorial reverse designs. The field within the punch shows traces of a radiating or floral motif. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (520 BC - 480 BC) |
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The Lycian League's early coinage predates the formal confederation that later became celebrated in antiquity — Montesquieu and the American founders both cited the League's republican structure as a model — but these archaic-period issues belong to a looser political arrangement among the dynastic city-states of Lycia before Persian imperial pressure forced greater regional cohesion after the Ionian Revolt. The hemidrachm fraction served interregional trade along the southwestern Anatolian coast, where Lycian, Greek, and Phoenician commercial networks overlapped.