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Stater
| Issuer | Nagidos |
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| Year | 400 BC - 384 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Reverse description | Dionysos standing left, his right hand raised to hold a cluster of grapes and his left hand grasping a long thyrsos; the field to the left bears a monogram of HP above an astragalos (knuckle bone). The legend NAΓIΔIKON AIΣ is inscribed in the field, identifying the coin as a civic issue of Nagidos. The figure is rendered in a confident Classical style consistent with late fifth- to early fourth-century Cilician die-cutting. |
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| Mint | Nagidos, Cilicia |
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Nagidos was a small Greek colonial city on the Cilician coast, modern-day southern Turkey, and its silver staters represent one of the earliest autonomous coinages from that stretch of coastline. The city's output was limited — the known dies are few, and the "var." citations against both SNG France and Lederer suggest this piece deviates in some detail from the closest parallels, whether in die alignment, control mark, or subsidiary symbol.
Cilician coinage of this period operated under persistent Persian suzerainty, yet Nagidos struck in its own name rather than under a satrap's authority — an independence that ended when the region was absorbed more tightly into the Achaemenid administrative system around the mid-fourth century.