Stater - Kuprilli Limyra

Kuprilli was among the earliest named Lycian dynasts to issue coinage, operating during the period of Achaemenid Persian dominance over the region when local rulers retained striking rights but answered ultimately to Sardis. Limyra, in eastern Lycia, was a secondary center of dynastic power during this period — most numismatic attention has historically gone to Xanthos and Tlos, making Limyra-attributed issues comparatively underexamined in the literature. The Müseler reference places this squarely within his Group IV classification for Kuprilli, a series defined partly by its transitional characteristics between earlier Lycian weight standards and later Attic-influenced norms.