Ancient Archaic Period - 400-301 BCE Cilicia, Uncertain Mint AR Obol NGC Choice VF

From the Faces in Time Collection of Ancient coinage (12).

Cilicia, uncertain mint, AR (silver) Obol. 4th century BC. Obverse: Head of female facing slightly to left, wearing stephane and earrings; rose to left in field. Reverse: Head of Satrap to left, wearing bashlyk. SNG BnF -; SNG Levante -; Winzer 18.1 (Mazaios); Babelon, Perses p. XLVII, fig. 12. 

Ruins of ancient Cilicia in modern-day Turkey.

In ancient times Cilicia (also Kilikia) was a southern coastal region of Anatolia. It stretched inland north from the coast of the Mediterranean, east from Pamphyia, to the Amanus Mountains, which cut it off from Syria. At first, the Persian Empire permitted tributary native kings to govern Cilicia. However, the last king of Cilicia was ousted after he sided with Cyrus the Younger in a civil war; they were defeated by Artaxerxes II. Thereafter Cilicia became an ordinary satrapy.