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Lycian Dynasts - Third Stater Of Trbbenimi

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Sometimes if I have a couple seconds to save a note file before a forced restart at work, I just mash my palm on the keyboard and hope it's not already taken. I'm pretty sure the same logic applied when the Persians asked the Lycian dynastic lords to name their tribe.

Anyway, Lycia was a Persian satrapy on the southwestern part of Asia Minor. Like much of modern day Turkey, they were ethnically and culturally more Greek than Persian, but were loyal and enjoyed a fair bit of autonomy. They were of course eventually subjugated by the Greeks, and then absorbed into the Roman East.

Unusually, the Lycians rejected both Greek and Aramaic, the two standard trade languages of the era, and inscribed their coins in the native Lycian, which was an indigenous Anatolian language, but written in a heavily modified and extended Greek, notably with Runic-looking characters added for sounds not covered by Greek.

Lycian, Trbbenimi dynast, 390-385 BC
1/3 stater (17mm, 2.58g)
Lion scalp facing (gosh this is a cool design!)
Triskeles, TPB-BWN-EME around

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There were a couple others included as well, all in reasonably good condition. Still working an ID of the others, but I am fairly certain they are of Perikles. I'm not finding a whole bunch of info on these; whether they are rare or how much they are worth. I couldn't find any others posted on here, and only a couple sold for ~$150 each on ebay in the past several months.
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Super coin.
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I agree great looking coin
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Neat little coin. I love that lion scalp.
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