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Tetartemorion
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Persian king or hero depicted in the kneeling-running (knielauf) pose to right, wearing the kidaris (tiara) and kandys (sleeved robe); the figure grasps a dagger in the raised right hand and holds a strung bow in the left. The rendering follows the Achaemenid court iconographic tradition common to Cilician fractional silver coinage of the fourth century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cilicia in the fourth century produced a sprawling, poorly documented coinage from numerous small mints, many of which remain unattributed after more than a century of scholarship. At 0.18g, this denomination was the smallest practical unit of Greek silver coinage — a quarter of an obol, itself already a fraction — and would have served daily transactions too minor for larger silver to handle economically.
The Sunrise Collection reference places it within a well-documented group, but the issuing city is still debated.