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Obol
| Issuer | Laranda |
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| Year | 324 BC - 323 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Jugate diademed male heads facing right, rendered in archaic Lycaonian style with bold, somewhat crude relief typical of the local Cilician coinage of this period. The two busts are presented in close proximity, the foremost head slightly overlapping the second. A beaded border encircles the design field. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Laranda was a city in Lycaonia, and this tiny silver obol dates to the period immediately surrounding Alexander the Great's eastern campaigns, when local Anatolian mints briefly continued issuing pseudo-autonomous coinage before Macedonian administrative control fully absorbed the region. The window for indigenous Larandan silver was narrow — effectively closed within a generation.