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Obol
| Issuer | Mallos |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Value | Obol (⅙) |
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| Reverse description | Facing gorgoneion depicted full face, with bulging eyes, flaring nostrils, and protruding tongue rendered in the apotropaic tradition of Archaic and Classical Greek coinage. Serpentine locks frame the grotesque visage, filling the field. The Greek letters M and A appear in the lower left and lower right quarters respectively, serving as the civic ethnic abbreviation for Mallos. |
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| Reverse lettering | M A |
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Mallos, situated on the Pyramus River in Cilicia, was a city with a contested mythological founding claim — both Amphilochus and Mopsus were said to have established it, a dispute supposedly settled by single combat between the two heroes. The city struck its own coinage during a period when Cilician mints operated under shifting Persian satrapal authority, and the small silver fractions produced there reflect the local commercial economy of a river-port trading post rather than any imperial directive.