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Stater - Kuprilli
| Issuer | Dynasts of Lycia (Achaemenid Satrapies) |
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| Year | 470 BC - 440 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Facing forepart of a boar in high relief, rendered in the archaic Lycian artistic tradition characteristic of early dynastic coinage. The design occupies the central field with bold, stylized modelling typical of fifth-century BC western Anatolian silver issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | S RVDBERTUS EPS SALISBVRG 1694 (Translation: Saint Rupert, bishop of Salzburg.) |
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Kuprilli was among the earliest Lycian dynasts to issue coinage in his own name, operating under loose Achaemenid suzerainty at a moment when Persian administrative control over southwestern Anatolia was still being consolidated after the wars with Greece. His issues predate the more standardized dynastic coinage that would emerge later in the fifth century, making them early evidence of how Lycian rulers negotiated local identity within an imperial framework — adopting the stater weight standard while asserting distinctly regional iconographic choices.
Mørkholm and Zahle's catalog remains the foundational reference for this dynastic series, and the spread of numbers 189–190 reflects documented die variations within the type.