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Stater - Uncertain Dynast
| Issuer | Lycia, Dynasts of |
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| Year | 500 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (2) |
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| Edge | Irregular |
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| Mintage | ND (-500) |
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Lycian dynastic coinage of this period occupies a genuinely awkward place in numismatic scholarship — the political structure of Lycia before the Persian Wars was a loose federation of semi-autonomous rulers answerable, in varying degrees, to Achaemenid authority, and attribution of individual issues remains contested. The "uncertain dynast" designation here reflects not cataloger laziness but a genuine gap: the absence of a readable dynast name leaves this piece anchored to type and weight standard alone.
The Müseler reference places it within the earliest stratum of Lycian silver production, before the dynastic series becomes legible through surviving inscriptions and coin legends.