Stater - Zenion

Descrizione del dritto	Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine Hellenistic style with wavy hair drawn back and secured by a laurel wreath, the facial features displaying a serene, idealised expression. The bust is set within a beaded border that follows the irregular flan, with the field left plain. The portrait exhibits high relief characteristic of Lycian silver coinage of the period.
Scrittura del dritto	Greek
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Informazioni aggiuntive	Phaselis operated as a semi-autonomous port city along the Lycian coast, and its coinage persisted well into the Roman provincial period largely because the city's commercial ties to Pamphylian and Rhodian trade networks demanded a recognizable, trusted silver denomination. The Zenion staters were struck under magistrate names — Zenion being one of several recorded issuing authorities — a practice that reflects the civic, rather than royal, monetary administration of the city. Heipp-Tamer's 1993 corpus remains the definitive die study for Phaselian staters of this period, cataloging tight chronological groupings based on magistrate sequences and die linkages.