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Stater
| Issuer | Mallos |
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| Year | 375 BC - 360 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head, identified as Kronos, facing right in high relief, with flowing wavy hair and full curled beard rendered in the Classical Cilician style. The head is bound with an ornamented tainia, its ties visible behind the neck. A fish symbol appears in the left field behind the head, serving as a civic emblem of Mallos. The portraiture is vigorous and deeply modeled, characteristic of Cilician coinage of the mid-fourth century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mallos occupied a strategically awkward position on the Cilician plain — close enough to the Assyrian and later Persian trade routes to matter, independent enough to mint its own coinage for centuries. This stater falls within the period of Persian satrapal control over Cilicia, when Mallos retained nominal civic autonomy while operating firmly within the Achaemenid economic sphere. The city's persistent insistence on its own coinage was not merely civic pride; it reflected real commercial utility for trade moving through the Pyramos River delta toward the sea.
Mallos was also the birthplace of the Stoic geographer Crates, though that association postdates this coin by nearly two centuries.