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Stater
| Issuer | Phaselis |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Phaselis (Lycia) |
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Phaselis occupied an unusual position among Lycian coastal cities — founded, according to ancient sources, by Rhodian colonists who purchased the land from a local herdsman for a load of dried fish. The city controlled three harbors simultaneously, giving it leverage in eastern Mediterranean trade that its coinage directly facilitated. Staters of this type circulated across a remarkably wide commercial network, and examples have turned up in hoards from Asia Minor to the Levant.
Alexander the Great wintered at Phaselis in 333 BC, using it as a base before his push through the Pamphylian coast — a detail that sharply brackets the later end of this issue's production.