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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
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| Diameter | 10 mm |
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| Reverse description | Female head in left profile, wearing a distinctive tripartite or turreted crown with upright prongs, consistent with depictions of a city goddess or Tyche. The hair is rendered in finely engraved parallel waves falling to the neck, and the facial features display a refined Hellenistic style. A small floral or foliate ornament is visible in the upper right field. No legend or inscription is present; the design fills the flan without a border. |
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| Mintage | ND (400 BC - 301 BC) |
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Cilicia in the fourth century was a patchwork of semi-autonomous cities operating under loose Achaemenid suzerainty, many of which struck small silver fractions to facilitate local trade without ever asserting a clear civic identity on the coinage itself. The inability to firmly attribute pieces like this one — despite decades of systematic cataloguing by Levante, Klein, and others — reflects how deliberately anonymous some of these mints were, possibly to avoid drawing administrative attention from Persian satraps collecting tribute.