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Æ10

Issuer Siphnos
Year 400 BC - 300 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
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Edge Plain
Mint Siphnos
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Siphnos, a small Cycladic island, had famously exhausted its legendary silver mines — once so productive they funded a treasury at Delphi — well before this bronze was struck. The shift to small fiduciary bronze coinage by the fourth century reflects a broader Aegean pattern of cities adopting token coinage as silver supplies tightened after the disruptions of the Peloponnesian War.

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