Supporting research record
Achaemenid silver siglos
Persian royal silver coinage in western Asia Minor.
A coin/specimen or inherited label alone is not an adjudicated account-unit currency.
Currency profiles
Evidence & research notes 2 claims
No introduction anchor adjudicated in this release.
Supported C248
Kroll dates replacement by Persian royal-image gold and silver types to around 515 BC.
John H. Kroll; Archaeological Exploration of Sardis · The Coins of Sardis Citation S129 · Open source ↗
Darius reform paragraph
Source access and limitations
Selected archaeological and succession statements.
Precise earliest mint/issuer, causal reconstruction and metallurgy remain debated; no universal ancestry claim.
Supported C249
Kroll describes an Old Smyrna hoard combining Lydian, Persian and local Greek silver around 500 BC.
John H. Kroll; Archaeological Exploration of Sardis · The Coins of Sardis Citation S129 · Open source ↗
Old Smyrna hoard paragraph
Source access and limitations
Selected archaeological and succession statements.
Precise earliest mint/issuer, causal reconstruction and metallurgy remain debated; no universal ancestry claim.