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Stater - Uncertain Dynast
| Issuer | Lycia, Dynasts of |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Facing draped bust of Athena wearing a triple-crested Attic helmet, rendered in the frontal style typical of Lycian dynastic staters. A triskeles motif appears in the lower field beneath the bust, serving as a subsidiary symbol. The entire design is contained within a dotted border set inside a shallow incuse square or circle, a hallmark of hammered Lycian silver coinage of this period. The composition reflects the blending of Greek iconographic conventions with local Lycian artistic traditions. |
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| Mintage | ND (400 BC - 350 BC) |
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Lycian dynastic coinage of this period occupies an awkward archival space — the region's rulers operated with considerable autonomy under Achaemenid Persian suzerainty, issuing their own silver while nominally subordinate to the satrapal administration at Sardis. When the issuing dynast cannot be identified, it usually means the coin falls outside the well-documented sequences of Kheriga, Kherei, or Mithrapata, or carries a partially legible Lycian script inscription that resists clean attribution. The Supplément reference suggests this piece was catalogued after Babelon's original corpus, filling gaps his work left open.