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Stater - Kuprilli Aperlai or Zagaba
| Issuer | Lycia, Dynasts of |
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| Year | 470 BC - 440 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm (550-330 BCE) |
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| Reverse description | A prominent triskeles occupies the center of a dotted incuse square, its three curving legs radiating from a central boss in the archaic rotational style. A lotus flower is placed in one corner of the incuse square. The Lycian dynastic inscription appears within the field. The entire design is sunk in relief within the square incuse punch, typical of early hammered Lycian coinage of the fifth century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kuprilli was among the most powerful of the early Lycian dynasts, operating under loose Achaemenid suzerainty while maintaining enough autonomy to strike coinage in his own name. The stater series attributed to him spans multiple mints — Aperlai and Zagaba among them — and the attribution debate between sites remains unresolved in the scholarship, with Müseler's sequencing still the working framework most dealers accept.
Lycian silver of this period was struck to the Lycian standard rather than the Attic or Aeginetan, a deliberate choice reflecting regional independence from the dominant Greek monetary systems of the fifth century.