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Tetartemorion
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
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| Value | Tetartemorion (1⁄24) |
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| Obverse description | Facing lion's head rendered in high relief, the powerful muzzle and brow boldly modelled, framed symmetrically by the outspread mane depicted as a series of radiating strands or ridges encircling the entire field. The confronting pose, with deeply set eyes and open jaws implied by the compact facial structure, is characteristic of the Cilician archaic-to-classical artistic tradition. No legend or inscription appears in the field. |
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| Reverse description | Facing bearded male head, tentatively identified as Dionysos, rendered in fine relief at the centre of the flan. The face displays a short beard and moustache, with wavy hair radiating outward and framing the visage in a manner echoing the lion's mane of the obverse. The eyes are deeply incised, and the overall modelling, though diminutive given the tiny module, reflects competent celator work consistent with Cilician coinage of the early fourth century BC. No legend or inscription is present in the field. |
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At 0.14 g, this is fractional coinage pushed to its practical extreme — a denomination so small that ancient mint workers handled them in bulk lots rather than individually. Cilicia in the fourth century was thick with semi-autonomous cities striking their own silver fractions, many never conclusively attributed, their issuing authorities still argued over in specialist literature.