Intermittently free after the Greeks defeated the Achaemenid Empire, it briefly joined the Athenian Empire, seceded and became independent, was under the Persians again, revolted again, was conquered by Mausolus of Caria, returned to the Persians, and went under Macedonian hegemony. Lycia was totally Hellenized under the Macedonians.
Under the Romans Lycia was allowed home rule under the Lycian League, a federation with republican principles. In AD 43 Claudius dissolved the league and made Lycia a Roman province.
Reverse: AΛEXANΔΡOY / Θ-Φ / O - o right of Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre. Θ over Φ in left field, O beneath throne.
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 15.59 g
Reverse: AΛEΞANΔΡOY - Zeus seated left, holding eagle in right hand and sceptre in left, Φ above IΔ (date) in left field.
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 15.82 g
Reverse: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ / KΓ - Φ - Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left on throne, ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ to right; KΓ (date) in left field, Φ below throne.
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 16.18 g
Reverse: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ / A - Φ - Zeus seated left on low-backed throne, right leg drawn back, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing right with closed wings, A in left field, Φ under throne.
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 15.88 g
Reverse: Head of Kherei right, wearing bashlyk, in pelleted round border within incuse circle.
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.59 g
Reverse: triskeles within dot circle
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.4 g
Reverse: Triskeles within incuse square
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.2 g
Reverse: triskeles, laureate bust of Apollo facing ΠEP_IKΛE (in lycian script)
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.9 g
Reverse: Stern of galley left; ΦAΣ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.4 g
Reverse: owl standing on two lyres; ΔHM EΞ__YΠAT B
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.1 g
Reverse: Male? head right; OFOV (Uvug) within incuse square
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.7 g
Reverse: Laureate head of Apollo right; diskeles to right; all within incuse square
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.3 g