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Obol
| Issuer | Kelenderis |
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| Year | 440 BC - 420 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of Pegasos facing left, rendered in bold archaic relief, with the winged horse's head, chest, and extended foreleg clearly delineated. The outstretched wing, depicted with finely incised feather detail, rises prominently behind the equine body, filling the field. The design is executed in the characteristic archaic Cilician style, with strong modelling of musculature and a compact, dynamic composition suited to the small flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kelenderis was a Cilician coastal city whose coinage punched well above its political weight — the mint produced some of the most artistically sophisticated small silver of the fifth century, at a time when the city likely operated under loose Achaemenid oversight without being fully absorbed into Persian administrative coinage systems. The obol denomination served local market exchange, probably moving through the harbor economy of a port that Strabo later identified as a significant anchorage on the southern Anatolian coast.
SNG Levante 13 and SNG BN 68 represent the die documentation most collectors rely on, though the series remains incompletely catalogued relative to its stater counterparts.