Stater - Ura

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.