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Tetrobol
| Issuer | Kindya |
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| Year | 510 BC - 480 BC |
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| Weight | 1.68 g |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a ketos (sea-monster) facing right, rendered in archaic style with a ridged dorsal crest along the neck, prominent open jaws with a curling snout, and scaled body indicated by parallel incised lines. The creature's head fills the flan, characteristic of early Carian coinage from the region of Kindya. The surface of the field is rough and irregular, consistent with the hand-struck technique of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kindya was a small Carian dynastic authority in southwestern Anatolia, and its coinage is among the least documented of the Hecatomnid-adjacent regional series. The SNG Kayhan reference places this firmly within a Anatolian collection context, but Kindyan issues remain poorly represented in major hoards, which complicates any firm attribution of mint sequence or political occasion for striking.
The dating bracket overlaps with the period of Achaemenid consolidation across Caria following Darius I's reorganization of western satrapal territories.