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Stater
| Issuer | Phaselis |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Stern of a war galley oriented to the left, with the steering oar (aplustre) and ornamental stern post clearly delineated. Above the galley, a tripod is depicted to the left, and the Greek city ethnic legend ΦAΣH appears prominently in the field to the right, identifying the issuing city of Phaselis. The design is struck within a shallow incuse square typical of hammered silver coinage of the period. |
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Phaselis was a Lycian coastal city that owed its prosperity almost entirely to its three harbors, and its coinage circulated heavily through eastern Mediterranean trade networks during the fourth century. The city maintained enough political independence to strike its own silver through the Achaemenid period, even as neighboring Lycian dynasts consolidated control across the region. Phaselis formally surrendered to Alexander the Great in 334 BC without resistance, reportedly sending him a golden crown — after which its autonomous coinage ceased.