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Stater
| Issuer | Nagidos |
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| Year | 380 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Bearded head of Dionysos facing right, rendered in fine archaic-to-early classical style with strong naturalistic modelling. The deity is crowned with an elaborate ivy wreath, with clearly delineated leaves and berries spread across the hair. The flowing beard is rendered with carefully incised strands, and the facial features display serene, idealised proportions characteristic of early 4th-century BCE Cilician coinage. The portrait fills the flan with assured artistry, set within a plain raised border of dots. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nagidos was among the earliest Cilician cities to strike silver coinage, its mint active during a period when the region operated under loose Achaemenid oversight that permitted substantial local monetary autonomy. The city itself sat at the mouth of the Nagidos river on the southwestern Cilician coast, and its staters circulated primarily within regional trade networks rather than reaching broad international distribution — which explains why surviving examples appear with some frequency in Cilician hoards but rarely elsewhere.
The Lederer corpus remains the foundational reference for this series, a 1910 study that has never been fully superseded.