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Stater
| Issuer | Phaselis (Lycia) |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Phaselis Mint |
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Phaselis occupied an unusual position among Lycian cities — geographically situated on the border between Lycia and Pamphylia, it was never fully absorbed into either cultural or monetary tradition. The city's staters circulated heavily along the eastern Mediterranean trade routes, particularly into Pamphylia and Cilicia, reflecting a port economy dependent on timber export from the Taurus hinterland. Alexander the Great wintered at Phaselis in 333 BC and famously used it as a staging point before his Cilician campaign, a moment that effectively ended the city's autonomous coinage within a generation.