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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Facing female head rendered in the archaic-to-classical Cilician style, depicted full-face with a broad, stylized physiognomy and large almond-shaped eyes. The hair is dressed in a tight-fitting, beaded or knotted cap or sakkos, framing the face closely. A prominent beaded necklace adorns the neck, rendered in pronounced relief. The field is plain, and the coin is bordered by a beaded or dotted outer rim characteristic of Cilician civic coinage of the 4th century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (400 BC - 300 BC) |
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Cilicia in the fourth century was a patchwork of semi-autonomous cities, Persian satraps, and local dynasts all striking silver on their own authority — which is precisely why attribution here remains open. The SNG references bracket this piece within a cluster of small fractional issues whose exact municipal origin has never been resolved to scholarly consensus, despite decades of hoard evidence from the region.
Aulock 5424 places it geographically but not municipally.