Mithrapata was among the most powerful of the Lycian dynasts, controlling a territory extensive enough that his coins circulated across multiple cities — Antiphellos among them, a coastal settlement whose name means "facing Phellos," the hilltop town it served as harbor for. His silver staters were struck to the Lycian weight standard, a regional system that persisted stubbornly independent of Persian imperial pressure during precisely the period when Artaxerxes II was tightening administrative control over Anatolia's western satrapies.
SNG von Aulock 4239 places this firmly within the documented sequence. Mithrapata's issues are notable for the number of known die combinations, suggesting a mint operating at sustained capacity across his reign.
Mithrapata was among the most powerful of the Lycian dynasts, controlling a territory extensive enough that his coins circulated across multiple cities — Antiphellos among them, a coastal settlement whose name means "facing Phellos," the hilltop town it served as harbor for. His silver staters were struck to the Lycian weight standard, a regional system that persisted stubbornly independent of Persian imperial pressure during precisely the period when Artaxerxes II was tightening administrative control over Anatolia's western satrapies.
SNG von Aulock 4239 places this firmly within the documented sequence. Mithrapata's issues are notable for the number of known die combinations, suggesting a mint operating at sustained capacity across his reign.