Stater

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.