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Stater
| Issuer | Kaunos |
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| Year | 450 BC - 410 BC |
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| Value | Stater (2) |
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| Obverse description | A winged female figure, identified as a Nike or Iris type, depicted in three-quarter facing view kneeling in the so-called knielauf pose, her body turned slightly to the right. The figure is draped in a chiton, with large, elaborately rendered wings spread symmetrically to either side, their feathers rendered in fine detail. Her right arm extends forward, holding what appears to be a leafy branch or spray, while her head faces left in profile. The flan is broad and slightly irregular, and the design is rendered in high relief characteristic of Karian civic coinage of the early Classical period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kaunos occupied an awkward political position throughout the fifth century — nominally within the Persian satrapal sphere yet maintaining enough autonomy to strike its own silver at weights derived from the Rhodian standard. The city sat at the mouth of the Calbis River on the Carian coast, and its coinage likely facilitated trade with both Aegean Greeks and Anatolian interior markets simultaneously. Whether it operated closer to Athenian or Persian allegiance shifted more than once across this forty-year span.
The series is well-documented across major collections — Ashmolean, Dewing, von Aulock — yet examples still surface with minor die variations unaccounted for in the standard references.