Obol

Cilicia in the fourth century BC was a patchwork of semi-autonomous cities and dynasts operating under the loose umbrella of Achaemenid Persian authority, each permitted — or at least tolerated — in striking their own small silver. The inability to assign this obol to a specific mint is not unusual; many Cilician issues from this period resist firm attribution because civic identity was sometimes deliberately ambiguous, and because the same engravers moved between workshops.

Göktürk's corpus remains the most systematic attempt to sort these unattributed Cilician fractions, though even that work leaves dozens of types in provisional categories.