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Stater - Uncertain Dynast
| Issuer | Lycia, Dynasts of |
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| Year | 470 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm (550-330 BCE) |
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| Obverse description | Dolphin leaping to left in high relief, rendered in the archaic Lycian style with a row of pellets delineating the dorsal fin and body musculature finely articulated. The creature occupies the upper register of the coin field, with a horizontal exergual line composed of pellets dividing the design from the plain lower field. The flan is irregularly shaped, typical of early hammered coinage from the Lycian dynastic period, with the design struck boldly and off-centre toward the upper portion. |
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| Reverse description | A triskeles motif centrally placed within a square border of pellets, the entire design set within a shallow incuse square characteristic of early Lycian dynastic coinage. The three running legs of the triskeles radiate from a central point, rendered in a crisp archaic style consistent with mid-fifth century BCE Anatolian die-cutting. The incuse square shows smooth, slightly recessed surfaces with well-defined angular borders, and the pellet frame serves as an inner decorative boundary separating the central device from the incuse field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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