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Stater
| Issuer | Uncertain Carian city |
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| Year | 500 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a lion facing right, rendered in archaic style with boldly modeled mane depicted as a series of raised parallel ridges or striations extending across the neck and chest. The head is shown in three-quarter or near-frontal perspective, with a large round eye and open jaws. The surface shows characteristic archaic Carian workmanship with broad, somewhat schematic treatment of the animal's features. No legend or inscription is present in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (-500) |
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The attribution to an uncertain Carian city is not evasion — Caria in the early fifth century hosted a dense cluster of semi-autonomous dynasts and civic mints whose output overlapped substantially in type and weight standard. SNG Kayhan 706-707 places this piece within a recognizable grouping without resolving the question of which specific issuer struck it, a situation that has not changed materially since Konuk's work on the region.
The weight corresponds to the Rhodian-Milesian standard, the dominant silver convention along the Aegean coast of Anatolia before Persian administrative pressure pushed several mints toward the Persian siglos standard after the Ionian Revolt.