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Stater
| Issuer | Aspendos |
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| Year | 330 BC - 250 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (330 BC - 250 BC) |
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Aspendos in Pamphylia was unusual among Anatolian cities in maintaining an active silver coinage well into the Hellenistic period, long after many neighboring mints had been absorbed into Macedonian or Seleucid monetary systems. The city's staters were struck primarily to pay mercenary soldiers — Aspendian troops were widely hired across the eastern Mediterranean, and the coins traveled accordingly. Find spots range from Egypt to the Black Sea coast.
The specific SNG France 110 reference places this piece within a well-documented but still debated sequence of die studies by Tekin and others working to establish a tighter chronology for the series.