Obol

Cilicia in the fourth century produced a bewildering number of small silver fractions from cities, dynasts, and satraps whose identities remain disputed or entirely unknown. The attribution to a specific mint is often impossible without hoard evidence, and Göktürk's catalogue acknowledges as much by grouping dozens of types under uncertain issuers. This piece falls into that unresolved zone.

The Persian satrapal system that governed Cilicia through most of this period permitted local coinage, which is why so many stylistically distinct but administratively obscure issues survive.