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Obol
| Issuer | Mallos |
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| Year | 390 BC - 385 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Incuse impression of the obverse type: Persian king in kneeling-running stance to right, wearing kidaris and kandys, holding spear in right hand and bow in left, with a barley grain to the left in the field. The incuse design reflects the characteristic double-strike technique common to early Cilician fractional silver coinage. |
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| Mint | Mallos |
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Mallos was a Cilician city whose contested status as either a Macedonian royal grant or an autonomous polis sparked a direct confrontation with Artaxerxes II in the late fifth century. The city's coinage from this period reflects a brief window of relative independence before Persian administrative pressure reasserted itself across the Cilician plain.