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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 370 BC - 334 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Youthful head of Heracles facing left, adorned with the Nemean lion-skin headdress, the scalp and gaping jaws of the pelt draped over the crown and falling behind the neck in characteristic Heraclean iconography. The facial features are smooth and idealised, with a slightly retroussé nose and full lips consistent with late Classical Greek artistic conventions. The lion-skin is rendered with incised detail indicating the fur and claws, framing the hero's profile in a manner commonly employed in Cilician and neighbouring satrapal mint coinage of the fourth century BC. The field is unlettered and the flan edges are ragged from the hammering process. |
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| Mintage | ND (370 BC - 334 BC) |
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Cilicia in this period was a patchwork of semi-autonomous cities and dynasts operating under loose Achaemenid suzerainty, which is precisely why attribution remains contested — local mint authority was real but poorly documented, and the surviving epigraphic record is thin. The SNG references place this piece within a recognized typological group without committing to a specific issuer, a common and honest position for this region's fractional silver.