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Tetartemorion
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
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| Diameter | 6 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male figure, possibly a satrap or Persian-influenced deity, shown in a kneeling or running pose (knielauf) facing right, wearing a tiara or Persian headdress. The figure appears to hold a bow or similar object in the outstretched arms, rendered in the archaic Cilician style characteristic of fourth-century BC satrapal coinage. The design fills the broad, flat flan with no surrounding legend or exergual inscription. The strike is typical of small hammered silver fractions from the Cilician region. |
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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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