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Stater
| Issuer | Kelenderis |
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| Year | 410 BC - 375 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A wild goat rendered in high relief, kneeling to the right with its head turned back to the left, the long curved horns prominently depicted. The animal rests upon a ground line formed by a row of beads or dots, below which, in the exergue, a dolphin swims to the right. The Greek legend ΚΕΛΕΝ (an abbreviation of ΚΕΛΕΝΔΕΡΙΣ, the city's name) appears in the upper field above the goat, the letters incuse or in relief depending on die state. The overall style reflects the accomplished engraving tradition of Cilicia in the classical period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΚΕΛΕΝ |
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Kelenderis was a Cilician coastal city whose coinage reflects its position as a semi-autonomous mint operating under shifting Persian imperial pressure during the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC. The stater series from this period is notably consistent in type, suggesting a civic mint with real institutional continuity rather than emergency or tribute issue. SNG von Aulock 5631 places this piece within a well-documented sequence, though individual die studies by Göktürk have identified more than forty obverse dies across the series — a output volume implying active maritime trade rather than purely local circulation.