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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
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| Weight | 0.41 g |
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| Obverse description | Figure of a Persian king or hero depicted in the kneeling-running pose to right, rendered in the Achaemenid court style. The figure grasps a dagger in one hand and a bow in the other, with a quiver suspended over the right shoulder. The composition follows the well-established Achaemenid royal archer type widely adopted by Cilician mints during the fourth century BC. The field is plain, with no inscription or exergual line. |
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| Reverse description | Youthful bare male head facing right, rendered with finely detailed short wavy hair swept back from the forehead, in the Greek artistic tradition of the fourth century BC. The bust is truncated at the neck and set within a shallow incuse circle that frames the entire design. The modeling of the facial features — including the straight nose, softly defined lips, and well-articulated jaw — reflects a competent local celator working under Hellenic stylistic influence. The field within the incuse is otherwise plain, with no inscription. |
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Cilicia in the fourth century BC was a patchwork of semi-autonomous cities, Persian-aligned dynasts, and briefly, Macedonian administration after Alexander's sweep through the region in 333 BC. Small fractional silver of this type circulated across that entire political transition essentially without interruption — the economy at street level cared little who held satrapal authority. Attribution remains contested; Sunrise and Kagan both hedge with comparative references rather than firm assignments, which is itself diagnostic of how poorly the mint hierarchy of inland Cilicia is still understood.