Stater Countermarked

Nagidos, a small Greek colonial city on the Cilician coast, operated with unusual monetary autonomy during the period when this stater was struck — nominally under Persian suzerainty but effectively self-governing enough to issue its own civic coinage. The countermark is the more telling detail here. Cities in Cilicia routinely restruck or countermarked foreign and local silver to validate it for continued circulation under shifting political authority, particularly as Persian satrap control fluctuated in the decades before Alexander's campaigns swept through the region after 334 BC.

SNG Levante 16-17 provides only a comparative reference, suggesting this specific countermark placement or punch type sits outside the precisely catalogued range.