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Tetartemorion
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Sunrise#97 |
| Obverse description | Facing bust of a female divinity, rendered frontally within a shallow incuse field. The subject displays a serene, archaic expression with large almond-shaped eyes and full lips. Long hair falls in two thick, braided tresses framing the face on either side, descending to the lower edge of the coin. The workmanship is consistent with the Achaemenid-period style of Cilician civic coinage of the fourth century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (400 BC - 301 BC) |
| Additional information |
Cilicia in the fourth century was a fractured monetary landscape — dozens of small dynastic and civic authorities struck their own coinage, many for only a generation or two, leaving attribution specialists to argue over even basic issuing authority. Sunrise 97 represents one of those contested attributions, where the fabric and style suggest a specific regional workshop but no scholarly consensus has held.
At roughly a quarter of an obol, this denomination served real transactional needs in small-scale commerce — grain, oil, ferry crossings.