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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Diameter | 10 mm |
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| Reverse description | A eagle standing facing left, perched upon a horizontal or slightly raised ground line, with wings folded at rest and rendered in fine feather detail through incised lines. A leafy olive or laurel branch rises prominently to the right of the bird, its berried sprays clearly articulated in relief. A second smaller branch or spray appears to the lower left. The composition fills the flan within a beaded border, consistent with the Persianizing civic coinage of uncertain Cilician mints during 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.