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Stater
| Issuer | Issos |
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| Year | 388 BC - 380 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issos was a small coastal mint in Cilicia, active for only a narrow window in the early fourth century BC. The city would later give its name to one of antiquity's most strategically decisive engagements — Alexander's defeat of Darius III in 333 BC — but at the time of this issue, it operated as a semi-autonomous commercial center under loose Achaemenid oversight, producing silver to facilitate Aegean trade networks rather than to project political authority.
BMC Greek #3 places this among the earliest attributed Issos staters, a classification resting on a thin corpus of surviving examples.