bgr_848654 - LYCIA - SATRAPS OF LYCIA - MITHRAPATA Tetrobole
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Type : Tetrobole
Date: c. 380 AC.
Mint name / Town : Antiphellos, Lycie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,61 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au revers. Joli masque de lion. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Masque de lion vu de face.
Reverse
Reverse legend : INSCRIPTION LYCIENNE.
Reverse description : Triskèle sinistrogyre évidé au centre.
Commentary
Au droit, le masque de lion représente en réalité la léonté (dépouille) du lion de Némée.
Historical background
LYCIA - SATRAPS OF LYCIA - MITHRAPATA
(4th century BC)
Antiphellos Satrap
We have little historical information about these semi-independent Lycian satraps who established themselves in the second half of the 5th century. Their coins disappeared definitively during the second half of the 4th century, with the arrival in the region of the satrap of Cilicia, Mazaios. Mithrapata, dynast or satrap of Antiphellos, a city located on the Lycian coast between Patara and Aperlai and which was the port of Phellos, seems to have preceded Perikles. The Antiphellos mint paid for both figures. Perikles died in 362 BC. Upon his death, Lycia returned to Persian orbit until the Macedonian conquest.
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