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.
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.