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Tetrobol
| Issuer | Phaselis (Lycia) |
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| Year | 411 BC |
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| Value | Tetrobol (⅔) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΦΑΣΗ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Phaselis occupied an awkward geopolitical position among Lycian cities — more commercially oriented than its neighbors, with three harbors and deep ties to Aegean trade networks. In 411 BC the city was nominally under Athenian influence but shifting toward Persia as Athenian power collapsed following the Sicilian disaster. Coinage from this precise moment reflects that instability; issues were struck in small quantities, likely to facilitate harbor dues and mercantile transactions rather than broad circulation.
Heipp-Tamer's die study identified only a handful of obverse dies for this denomination, making individual specimens traceable to specific production runs.