A silver third stater of the dynast Trbbenimi, dated to 390–375 BC, belongs to the issues of local Lycian rulers struck during the period of Achaemenid dominance over Asia Minor.
Trbbenimi is attested in numismatic evidence as one of the regional dynasts operating within the administrative framework of the Persian Empire, while retaining considerable internal autonomy, including the right to issue his own coinage.
The obverse presents a frontal lion scalp, a motif known in eastern Mediterranean iconography and attested in Lycian art and coinage of the 4th century BC. The reverse features a triskeles, a symbol with a wide distribution in the Greek and Anatolian world, here accompanied by the legend TPBBΨ, representing the dynast’s name written in the Lycian alphabet.
Greece
Lycia, Trbbanimi, 1/3 Stater 390-375 BC
Obverse: lion's scalp facing
Reverse: triskeles
TPBBΨ
Diameter 15 mm, weight 2.79 g
