Stater - Kheriga

Kheriga was the most powerful of the Lycian dynasts of the late fifth century, operating in a complex political space between Athenian naval pressure and Achaemenid Persian overlordship. His coinage — struck in the local Lycian weight standard rather than the Attic — was a deliberate assertion of regional autonomy within a satrapal system that technically claimed authority over him. The series attributed to Müseler VI, 3 belongs to his earlier issues, before the political realignments that followed Athens' catastrophic defeat in Sicily in 413 BC shifted the entire Aegean balance.