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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 370 BC - 334 BC |
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| Value | Obol (⅙) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus facing left, rendered in archaic-influenced style characteristic of fourth-century Cilician coinage. The mature, bearded visage displays finely detailed wavy locks of hair and beard radiating from the face, with the laurel wreath rendered as a broad, leafy spray across the crown. The die engraving exhibits the bold, slightly schematic modeling typical of minor silver denominations from the Cilician satrapies. The field is plain, with no inscriptions or additional devices. The flan is irregular, consistent with the hand-struck production methods of the period. |
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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.