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Tetartemorion
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 375 BC - 333 BC |
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| Value | Tetartemorion (1⁄24) |
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| Obverse description | Facing head rendered in archaic style, depicted full-face within the coin's circular field; the features are boldly modelled with prominent eyes, a broad nose, and closed lips, the head slightly inclined. The hair is swept back and secured, with a suggestion of a wreath or headband visible at the crown. The striking surface is notably broad relative to the coin's diminutive flan, with the face occupying nearly the entire field. No legend or inscription is present. The style is consistent with Cilician workshop production of the fourth century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (375 BC - 333 BC) |
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At 0.20g, these fractional pieces represent the smallest denomination in regular Greek commercial use — one-quarter of an obol, itself already a fraction. Cilicia in this period sat under loose Achaemenid oversight, with local dynasts and cities retaining enough autonomy to strike their own silver while still paying tribute to Persia. The attribution remains contested; Kagan's corpus groups several visually similar issues under uncertain Cilician origins precisely because the region's mint output from this period has never been systematically untangled from neighboring Lycian and Phoenician production.