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Tetartemorion
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
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| Value | Tetartemorion (1⁄24) |
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| Reverse description | Sphinx or lion-griffin seated to left, depicted with a leonine body, raised forepaw, and a human or animal head turned to face the viewer, in a style consistent with Cilician civic coinage of the fourth century BC. The reverse field is plain with no inscription or exergual line. The image is set within a slightly irregular incuse or flat flan, the result of hand hammering on a small silver blank. The artistic treatment reflects Achaemenid-influenced iconography commonly encountered on coinage of uncertain Cilician mints. |
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| Mintage | ND (400 BC - 301 BC) |
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Cilicia in the fourth century operated as a patchwork of semi-autonomous cities and dynasts under loose Achaemenid oversight, many issuing their own fractional silver without consistent attribution to any single authority. At 0.25g, this denomination represents one of the smallest practical units of account in the ancient world — a quarter-obol, essentially the floor of everyday transactional coinage. Sunrise 101 places it within a group whose civic origin remains genuinely unresolved, not merely uncatalogued.