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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 | Draped bust of Athena facing right, wearing a crested Attic helmet with prominent comb, rendered in high relief on an irregularly flan. The neck and upper drapery are visible below, and the portrait displays the archaic-influenced style characteristic of fourth-century Cilician civic coinage. The design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse description | A lion passant to left, depicted in profile with its head erect and tail raised, standing on a ground line. A six-pointed star or astral symbol appears in the upper field above the lion's back. The entire design is contained within a beaded border on an irregular hammered flan, consistent with Cilician satrapal and civic coinage conventions of the fourth century BC. |
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Cilicia's fourth-century silver fractions remain among the most attribution-resistant coins in the ancient world. The region hosted dozens of semi-autonomous dynasts and cities simultaneously striking small silver, many using nearly identical types, and the absence of ethnic legends on issues of this weight class has left generations of specialists arguing over the same handful of candidates — Nagidos, Kelenderis, Soloi, and others — with no consensus in sight.