Tetrobol - Kuprilli

Kuprilli was among the earliest identifiable Lycian dynasts to place his name on coinage, a practice that preceded the region's later alphabet by borrowing from Aramaic administrative script used under Achaemenid rule. His issues were struck during the period when Lycia nominally fell within the Persian imperial sphere following the campaigns of Harpagus in the 540s BC, yet the dynasts retained striking independence that no Persian satrapy to the east enjoyed in quite the same way. The Mørkholm and Zahle corpus remains the definitive die study for this series, and specimens matching those references are increasingly difficult to locate outside institutional collections.