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Diobol
| Issuer | Uncertain Troan city |
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| Year | 450 BC |
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| Weight | 1.16 g |
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| Reverse description | Facing gorgoneion (Medusa head) depicted en face in low relief within a shallow incuse square, surrounded by sinuous serpents whose bodies curl outward from the periphery of the face. The gorgon's features are rendered in the archaic style with wide staring eyes, a broad nose, and a gaping mouth. The serpents frame the head symmetrically, their tails coiling into volutes at the corners of the incuse. The overall composition is bold and apotropaic in character, consistent with Troadic civic coinage of the mid-fifth century BC. No inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Troad in the fifth century BC was dense with small autonomous mints, many issuing fractional silver for purely local exchange. Without a legible ethnic or a securely attributed die link, pinning this piece to a specific city remains guesswork — scholars have floated Kebren, Skepsis, and Kolonai at various points, none conclusively.