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Stater
| Issuer | Phaselis |
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| Year | 530 BC - 500 BC |
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| Reference(s) | GCV#3586 |
| Obverse description | Prow of a galley advancing to the left, rendered in the form of a boar's forepart with distinctive archaic stylization; the hull is articulated by horizontal bands. A dolphin is depicted below the prow in the lower field. The design reflects the maritime character of Phaselis and is executed in the bold, summary style characteristic of early Lycian and Pamphylian coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Phaselis occupied an unusually mercantile position among Lycian coastal cities — founded as a Rhodian colony, it operated three separate harbors and charged differential port duties depending on which anchorage merchants used. The city maintained commercial ties across the eastern Mediterranean that most of its neighbors could not match, and its early silver coinage circulated accordingly far from home. Hoards containing Phaselian staters have turned up in Egypt and the Levant, almost certainly carried there by the trading networks the city depended on.
The GCV 3586 type belongs to the archaic phase of Phaselian minting, before the city fell under Persian administrative pressure following the Achaemenid consolidation of Anatolia after 546 BC.