Obol

Selge was among the most stubbornly independent cities in Pisidia, never fully absorbed into the Achaemenid administrative network despite Persian dominance across much of Anatolia during this period. Its coinage was locally controlled and locally circulated — feeding a mountain economy built on timber, storax resin, and the occasional mercenary contract. The obol denomination at this weight signals small-transaction commerce rather than inter-city trade.

SNG von Aulock 5241 is the standard reference point for this type, documented from the Hans von Aulock collection assembled through the mid-twentieth century — still the benchmark corpus for Pisidian coinage.