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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Bearded male head facing left, identified as a satrap, wearing the distinctive soft kyrbasia headdress with its forward-tilted apex and cheek flaps rendered in relief. The beard is rendered with short striated locks and the facial features display a robust, stylised treatment typical of Achaemenid satrapal portraiture. Before the face, to the left of the field, a rayed star — described in the catalogue literature as having sixteen rays — serves as the sole identifying symbol. No legend or additional devices are present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cilicia's fourth-century silver fractions present persistent attribution problems, and this piece is no exception. The region hosted dozens of semi-autonomous cities and dynastic mints operating simultaneously under loose Achaemenid suzerainty, many of which struck small silver on identical weight standards with no identifying ethnic. Göktürk's catalogue brought some order to the group, but a meaningful portion remains unassigned — including this piece.
The century bracketed here saw Cilicia pass from Persian control through Alexander's conquest in 333 BC and into the hands of his successors, each transition reshuffling mint authority.