Obol

Xanthos was the dominant city of Lycia in this period, ruled by dynasts who operated in an uncomfortable space between Persian imperial authority and local autonomy. The Lycian dynastic coinage of the late fifth and early fourth centuries is among the most regionally distinctive in the Greek world — minted under rulers whose names appear in Lycian script on related issues, a language only partially deciphered into the twentieth century.

BMC Greek 109 places this piece within a well-documented sequence, but the precise dynast responsible for its issue remains a matter of ongoing scholarly debate.