Stater - Kuprilli

Kuprilli was among the earliest named Lycian dynasts whose coinage can be attributed with confidence, ruling a region that maintained unusual autonomy under Achaemenid Persian suzerainty in the fifth century BC. His silver staters draw directly on the Lycian weight standard rather than the Attic or Persian systems, a deliberate signal of local administrative independence within an otherwise Persian-dominated western Anatolia.

The SNG von Aulock specimens remain the principal reference points for attributing this type, reflecting how thinly documented Lycian dynastic coinage still is outside a handful of major collection surveys.