Stater - Kuprilli

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.