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Stater
| Issuer | Mallos |
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| Year | 440 BC - 390 BC |
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| Diameter | 21.0 mm |
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| Reverse description | Hermes standing facing, nude, holding his kerykeion (caduceus) in one hand, paired with Aphrodite standing left, the two deities shown in intimate proximity as Aphrodite rests against a column and extends her arm around Hermes in an embrace. The figural grouping is rendered in the archaic Greek style characteristic of late fifth-century Cilician issues, with both deities depicted with fine engraving detail. The pairing of Hermes and Aphrodite on Mallian coinage is a distinctive iconographic feature unique to this mint. |
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| Mint | Mallos, Cilicia |
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Mallos occupied a strategically awkward position on the Cilician plain, near the mouth of the Pyramos river, and its right to strike coinage was a point of recurring political tension. The city was periodically claimed by Persian satraps, by the Argive dynastic line it promoted as its founding myth, and eventually became one of several Cilician mints producing silver for regional trade rather than imperial remittance. This stater belongs to a period when Mallos maintained enough autonomy to operate its mint on its own terms — a window that would narrow considerably by the mid-fourth century.