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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 380 BC |
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| Diameter | 9 mm |
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| Obverse description | Nude male figure, likely a warrior or deity, depicted in a kneeling or running pose facing right, rendered in the archaizing style typical of Cilician coinage of the early fourth century BC. The figure wears a crested helmet and appears muscular, with the body shown in three-quarter view. The field is plain and unlettered. The overall style reflects strong Greco-Persian artistic influence characteristic of uncertain Cilician mints of this period. |
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| Mintage | ND (400 BC - 380 BC) |
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Cilicia in the early fourth century hosted a dense cluster of semi-autonomous cities and dynastic mints operating under loose Achaemenid suzerainty, many of which issued fractional silver for purely local exchange. Attribution problems are endemic to this series — without a clear ethnic or dynastic badge, coins like this one get filed under "uncertain" indefinitely, despite SNG Levante providing the closest typological anchor available.