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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Jugate busts of a male and female figure facing right, rendered in archaic Greek style with bold, deeply cut relief. The female bust, positioned in front, displays carefully delineated hair pulled back, while the male bust behind her exhibits similar stylistic treatment. The pair are enclosed within a beaded border that follows the irregular flan. The modelling is characteristic of 4th century BC Cilician civic coinage, reflecting strong Achaemenid-period artistic influences. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cilicia in the fourth century produced an extraordinary number of small silver fractions from cities and dynasts whose precise identities remain contested — many issues were struck by semi-autonomous rulers operating under loose Achaemenid suzerainty before Alexander's campaigns swept the region clean of Persian administrative structures after 333 BC. Attribution of these tiny pieces is genuinely difficult: Sunrise and Klein sometimes diverge on civic versus dynastic origin, and this obol sits in that unresolved space.
At under 0.6 g, these fractions circulated as genuine working money in local markets, not as prestige issues.