Obol

Cilicia's fractional silver coinage of the fourth century presents persistent attribution headaches — dozens of small cities along the southern Anatolian coast struck obols and hemibols in this period, many sharing iconographic conventions that make pinning down a specific mint nearly impossible without hoard provenance. The SNG references here place this piece within a recognized grouping without resolving the question of origin. Sunrise 109 pulls from the Sunrise collection, one of the most systematically assembled Cilician holdings of the twentieth century, whose 2012 auction catalogue remains the standard working reference for the region's fractional silver.