Tetrobol - Uncertain Dynast

正面描述	A ketos (sea-monster) depicted in profile swimming to the right, its serpentine body rendered with archaic vigour, the elongated fish-tailed form curving across the field. The creature's head is clearly articulated with an open jaw, and the scaled or ridged body tapers into a coiled tail. The composition is contained within an irregular flan, with a border of dots encircling the design. The style is characteristic of early Lycian dynastic coinage of the late Archaic period, reflecting strong Anatolian artistic influence.
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附加信息	Lycian dynastic coinage of this period predates the region's absorption into the Achaemenid satrapal system as a formally administered province, issued instead under local rulers whose names — where they survive at all — appear in Lycian script on only a fraction of known types. The attribution "uncertain dynast" is not a failure of scholarship so much as an honest reflection of how many minor dynasts operated simultaneously across the region's fragmented political geography, striking small silver for local exchange with no obligation to advertise themselves clearly to posterity.

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