Catalog
Stater - Timarchos
| Issuer | Phaselis (Lycia) |
|---|---|
| Year | 250 BC - 220 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Prow of a war galley (trireme) viewed from the left, rendered in fine relief with oar-banks and hull strakes clearly articulated along the lower field. A cicada is depicted to the upper right of the prow, a characteristic civic emblem of Phaselis. Below the prow, a small running dog is shown in the lower field, adding a subsidiary decorative element typical of the Phaselitan series. The composition is dynamic, emphasizing the maritime identity and commercial power of the city. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | ΤΙΜΑΡΧΟΣ ΦΑΣ |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Phaselis occupied an unusual position among Lycian coastal cities — technically within the Lycian region but culturally and commercially oriented toward Pamphylia, maintaining its own mint long after neighboring cities had been absorbed into broader federal coinage systems. The magistrate name Timarchos appears on a limited run of staters from this period, placing production somewhere in the decades following Alexander's eastern campaigns, when local dynastic and civic authority reasserted itself across Asia Minor's coastline in the power vacuum left by the Diadochi conflicts.
Heipp-Tamer's corpus remains the standard reference for Phaselitan civic coinage and assigns this type a relatively modest die range, suggesting limited output.