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Stater
| Issuer | Tarsos |
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| Year | 440 BC - 420 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (440 BC - 420 BC) |
| Additional information |
Tarsos functioned as the administrative and fiscal center of the Achaemenid satrapy of Cilicia during the fifth century, and its coinage was produced largely to meet Persian imperial obligations — troop payments, tribute logistics, and the maintenance of the regional garrison. The stater series to which this piece belongs predates the better-documented issues struck under named Cilician dynasts, placing it in a period when the mint's authority derived directly from satrapal appointment rather than local dynastic rule.
SNG Levante 83 situates this among a closely related group distinguished by die-link studies conducted on the broader Tarsian fifth-century corpus.