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| Issuer | Lapethos |
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| Year | 450 BC - 425 BC |
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| Weight | 10.92 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (450 BC - 425 BC) |
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Lapethos was one of the more persistently Phoenician of Cyprus's city-kingdoms, and its coinage reflects that orientation clearly in its administrative choices. Sidqmelek — a Phoenician theophoric name meaning "Melqart is righteous" — was among the dynasts issuing in the mid-fifth century under nominal Achaemenid suzerainty, a period when Persian imperial pressure was shaping which Cypriot kingdoms could mint and which could not.
The siglos weight standard here aligns with Persian practice, not Aeginetan, which tells you something about where Lapethos's political loyalties sat during the tensions leading into the later Cypro-Persian conflicts.