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Stater
| Issuer | Lycia, Dynasts of |
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| Year | 500 BC - 440 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | A bearded sea-serpent (ketos) swimming to the left, rendered in incuse relief and mirroring the obverse type. The creature's scaled, coiled body is contained within a dotted square border, itself set within a recessed incuse square — a hallmark of early Archaic Greek coinage technique. The dotted border and incuse square together frame the design in a manner consistent with Lycian dynastic issues of the late Archaic period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lycian dynastic coinage of this period occupies an unusual position in ancient numismatics — the dynasts who issued it operated as Persian satraps in practice while maintaining enough autonomy to strike coins in their own names, a political balancing act that defined the region for over a century. The weight standard here follows the Lycian norm derived from reduced Aeginetan units rather than the Persian siglos or Attic systems, a deliberate assertion of regional identity.
Rosen 708 is a well-documented specimen within the Rosen Collection, published in the 1999 corpus. The Lycian series from this half-century is notoriously difficult to attribute to specific dynasts, as inscriptions on early issues are abbreviated or absent entirely.