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Obol
| Issuer | Nagidos |
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| Year | 400 BC - 380 BC |
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| Value | Obol (⅙) |
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| Reverse description | Bearded head of Dionysos facing right, depicted with flowing hair and a full beard rendered in fine linear strokes, enclosed within a dotted circular border. The portrait displays the mature, idealised features typical of Cilician coinage of the early fourth century BC. The field is plain, with no inscription or legend. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nagidos was a small Cilician coastal settlement whose independent coinage output was modest and chronologically compressed — most issues fall within a narrow window before the region came under tighter Persian administrative pressure. The city's silver fractional coinage is known primarily through a handful of die studies, with SNG Levante and SNG France between them accounting for the bulk of documented specimens.
The obol denomination here represents the smallest practical unit of silver exchange in the Cilician monetary system of the period.