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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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| Weight | 10.84 g |
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| Obverse description | A forepart of a boar to right, with bristled mane rendered in fine detail, set upon a ground line. Above the boar, a Lycian legend is inscribed in the upper field. The design is executed in an archaic Greek style characteristic of early Lycian dynastic coinage of the fifth century BC. |
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| Obverse lettering | 𐊁𐊒𐊓𐊕𐊐𐊑𐊐 |
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Kuprilli was among the earliest named Lycian dynasts to strike coins, and his issues predate the region's full absorption into recognizable Achaemenid administrative structures. The stater series bearing his name is fundamental to establishing the chronology of early Lycian coinage — Mørkholm and Zahle's classification of these pieces anchored much of the subsequent scholarship on dynastic Lycia. His name appears in Lycian script, one of the earliest attestations of the language in an epigraphic context outside of funerary monuments.