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Stater - Tiribazus
| Issuer | Lydia, Satrapy of |
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| Year | 390 BC - 386 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Reverse description | Enthroned male figure seated to right, clad in Persian court dress and wearing the satrapal kidaris headdress. The right hand is raised in a gesture of authority or salutation, while the left hand rests upon a bow set vertically on the ground before him. The composition follows the iconographic tradition of Achaemenid satrapal portraiture, with the figure occupying the full field of the irregular, plano-convex flan. No legend or exergual inscription is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (390 BC - 386 BC) |
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Tiribazus held the satrapy of Lydia intermittently — twice appointed, twice removed — and his coinage falls within his second tenure, a period when he was simultaneously negotiating with Sparta and maneuvering against his rival Pharnabazus. It was Tiribazus who personally backed the King's Peace of 386 BC, travelling to Susa to secure Artaxerxes II's terms, a diplomatic achievement that effectively ended Spartan involvement in Anatolia.
The issue is rare in any grade. SNG Levante 66 and Sunrise 43 represent the primary die references, and specimens outside those collections surface infrequently at auction.