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Stater
| Issuer | Soloi (Cilicia) |
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| Year | 410 BC - 375 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΣOΛEΩN |
| Edge | Plain |
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Soloi was a Greek colonial city on the Cilician coast, traditionally founded by settlers from Rhodes and Lindos, and its coinage from this period reflects the city's position as a trading hub between the Aegean world and the Persian-controlled interior. The city gave the Greek language the word soloikismos — solecism — reportedly because its colonists spoke such corrupt Greek that Athenians mocked them by name.
Cilician staters of this type circulated widely as merchant currency across the eastern Mediterranean during the decades when Persian satraps were actively using Greek-style silver to pay mercenary forces.