Kelenderis was a coastal city in Rough Cilicia whose coinage tradition leaned heavily on local iconographic conventions rather than imitating the dominant Attic or Aeginetan weight standards of the period. This stater conforms to the Persic weight standard — the preferred system across much of Cilicia during Achaemenid suzerainty — placing its production squarely within a monetary zone controlled, at least nominally, by the Persian satrapal administration headquartered at Tarsus.
The SNG von Aulock specimen cited as the comparative reference was part of a collection assembled with particular depth in Asia Minor civic coinages, and the France concordance suggests a well-documented die tradition for this type.
Kelenderis was a coastal city in Rough Cilicia whose coinage tradition leaned heavily on local iconographic conventions rather than imitating the dominant Attic or Aeginetan weight standards of the period. This stater conforms to the Persic weight standard — the preferred system across much of Cilicia during Achaemenid suzerainty — placing its production squarely within a monetary zone controlled, at least nominally, by the Persian satrapal administration headquartered at Tarsus.
The SNG von Aulock specimen cited as the comparative reference was part of a collection assembled with particular depth in Asia Minor civic coinages, and the France concordance suggests a well-documented die tradition for this type.