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Stater
| Issuer | Mallos |
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| Year | 385 BC - 375 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and bearded head of Herakles facing left, rendered in fine archaic Greek style with flowing hair secured by a laurel wreath; the facial features are boldly modelled with a strong brow, almond-shaped eye, and well-articulated beard composed of curling locks. The portrait fills the flan and is contained within a dotted border, demonstrating the high artistic quality associated with Cilician civic coinage of the early fourth century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (385 BC - 375 BC) |
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Mallos, situated on the Pyramos River in Cilicia, was among the more politically volatile minting cities of the fourth century BC. The city's civic coinage was briefly interrupted when it was gifted by Artaxerxes II to his favorite Tiribazus around 386 BC — a transfer that triggered open revolt and required Persian military intervention to suppress. These staters fall squarely within that turbulent period of reasserted Persian oversight, when local minting continued under conditions of contested authority.
The SNG Levante 170 attribution places this among a tightly documented die sequence from the Cilician corpus assembled by Édouard Levante over decades of specialist fieldwork.