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Stater
| Issuer | Lycian League |
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| Year | 520 BC - 480 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (520 BC - 480 BC) |
| Additional information |
The Lycian League predates the better-known federal coinage of the Classical period by over a century, and these early staters were struck before the region fell under Achaemenid administrative pressure following the Persian consolidation of Anatolia. The weight standard here — close to the Persic or "Asiatic" reduced standard — reflects the commercial compromises forced on coastal Anatolian mints dealing simultaneously with Aegean and eastern trading partners.
Lycia itself was never fully absorbed into Persian provincial bureaucracy the way neighboring satrapies were, retaining dynastic autonomy that explains the persistence of locally controlled silver issues across this period.