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Stater - Ura
| Issuer | Lycia, Dynasts of |
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| Year | 480 BC - 460 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (2) |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a roaring lion facing left, rendered in bold archaic relief, with the beast's open jaws prominently displaying teeth and a curling tongue. The lion's mane is elaborately depicted with a series of fine parallel wavy lines cascading along the neck and shoulder. The musculature of the chest and forequarters is rendered with vigorous stylization characteristic of early Lycian coinage. The design fills the flan with dynamic energy, the lion's head turned slightly downward in an aggressive posture. No legend or inscription appears on the obverse. |
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| Reverse script | Lycian |
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Ura was a coastal city in eastern Lycia, and its dynastic coinage from this period predates the region's absorption into the Achaemenid satrapal system that would later standardize much of Anatolian mint output. These early Lycian staters are among the most idiosyncratic issues of the Greek world — struck on a local weight standard derived neither from the Aeginetan nor the Attic system, but from a Lycian norm hovering around 9.6g that persisted stubbornly through successive dynastic regimes. Müseler's corpus remains the primary reference precisely because so few of these pieces entered major 19th-century collections, leaving them underrepresented in earlier scholarship.