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Stater - Mazaeus
| Issuer | Cilicia, Satrapy of |
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| Year | 361 BC - 344 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SNG France#334-335 |
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| Reverse script | Aramaic |
| Reverse lettering | תרז |
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Mazaeus governed Cilicia as satrap under Artaxerxes III before later surrendering Babylon to Alexander the Great in 331 BC — a capitulation rewarded with his reappointment as governor under Macedonian rule. His Cilician staters were struck during a period of intense Achaemenid military reorganization, when Cilicia's position as a staging ground for campaigns into Egypt and the Levant made its mint output strategically significant. The satrapal coinage effectively funded Persian operations in the western Mediterranean theater.
SNG France 334-335 represents the well-documented Tarsos mint attribution for this type.