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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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| Obverse description | Forepart of a boar facing right, rendered in bold archaic style with the head and neck prominently depicted. The snout is characteristically broad and rounded, with a visible eye rendered as a raised pellet and a short, upturned tusk indicated above the jaw. The coarse, bristled mane along the dorsal ridge is suggested by a series of raised projections. The flan is irregular and broad, typical of early Lycian hammered coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Deep incuse square with a prominent central pellet boss, from which eight radiating ridges extend to the corners and midpoints of the square, creating a wheel- or star-like pattern within the incuse. The raised square border frames the entire design, and the surrounding flan is flat and unworked. This incuse reverse type is characteristic of archaic Lycian dynastic coinage of the late sixth to early fifth century BCE. |
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Lycian dynastic coinage of this period operated outside the framework of the major Greek monetary systems — these issues were struck to local standards by regional rulers whose names often go unrecorded, their authority derived from Persian imperial sanction during Achaemenid control of the southwestern Anatolian coast. The Müseler classification represents some of the most systematic recent work on untangling these attributions, but the "uncertain dynast" designation is honest: without an accompanying legend or secure archaeological provenance, the issuing authority remains genuinely unknown.