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Stater - Uncertain Dynast
| Issuer | Dynasts of Lycia |
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| Year | 460 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (2) |
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| Obverse description | A boar advancing to the left in high relief, rendered in the archaic Lycian artistic tradition. The animal is depicted with characteristic detail: a prominent bristled dorsal ridge rendered by incised hatching lines, a muscular body, and well-defined limbs in mid-stride. The head is turned slightly downward, with a visible snout and eye. No legend or border is present; the design fills the roughly circular flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (-460) |
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The Lycian dynastic coinages of the fifth century BC remain among the least systematically understood in the Greek world. Attribution is complicated by the Lycian script used on many issues — a language only partially deciphered — and by the region's fragmented political structure, in which local rulers operated with considerable autonomy under loose Achaemenid suzerainty without always leaving enough epigraphic evidence to identify themselves with certainty.
Müseler's corpus has brought more order to the series than any previous effort, but the "uncertain dynast" designation persists for a meaningful subset of issues where die links and stylistic analysis fall short of a firm attribution.