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| Issuer | Kindya |
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| Year | 510 BC - 480 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Mint | Kindya (Caria) |
| Mintage | ND (510 BC - 480 BC) |
| Additional information |
Kindya was a minor Carian dynastic mint operating in the region around the Ceramic Gulf, active during the period when Persian satrapal authority was consolidating across western Anatolia following Cyrus's conquest of Lydia in 547 BC. The city's coinage is known almost exclusively from a handful of reference collections — the tight clustering of catalog citations here reflects genuine rarity rather than scholarly consensus built on abundant specimens.
No literary source names a Kindyan ruler for this period. The coins themselves constitute the primary evidence that the mint existed at all.