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Stater - Stasandros
| Issuer | Kingdom of Paphos |
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| Year | 460 BC - 440 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Eagle standing right within a shallow incuse square, rendered in fine early Classical style with detailed feathering on the wings and body. To the left of the eagle, a Cypriot syllabic inscription is arranged vertically in two columns, reading pa-si sa-ta-sa, identifying the issuing king Stasandros of Paphos. A small oinochoe (jug) appears in the lower left field. The beaded border frames the entire incuse compartment. |
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| Reverse lettering | 𐊫𐊰 𐊰𐊠𐊰𐊠 (Translation: pa-si / sa-ta-sa) |
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Paphos was among the Cypriot kingdoms that navigated an extraordinarily precarious position during the mid-fifth century BC, nominally subject to Achaemenid Persian authority while culturally and commercially entangled with the Greek world. Stasandros ruled during precisely this tension, when Cyprus served as a recurring flashpoint between Persian ambition and Athenian expansion — the Delian League's campaigns in the eastern Mediterranean brought Athenian warships within reach of Cypriot waters more than once during this window.
The kingdom of Paphos produced a relatively small corpus of silver coinage, and Stasandros issues are among the rarer royal attributions from the island. The Tziambazis and SilCoinCy references document only a handful of die pairings across collections.