Stater

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.