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Diobol
| Issuer | Ephesos |
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| Year | 390 BC - 325 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bee shown in plan view, facing upward, with prominent segmented body, outstretched wings rendered with incised diagonal lines, and rounded head with globular eyes. A dotted border runs along the lower periphery of the flan. The civic abbreviation E-Φ (epsilon and phi) flanks the bee in the upper field to left and right respectively, identifying the issuing city of Ephesos. The design is executed in high relief with confident, naturalistic modelling characteristic of late Classical Ionian coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Ephesos in the fourth century BC sat at the intersection of Greek and Persian economic spheres, and its small silver fractions — including this diobol — circulated in a region where Achaemenid satrapal authority and Greek civic coinage coexisted uneasily. The city had passed in and out of Persian control for generations, and local coinage served practical daily commerce that larger denominations could not.
The SNG von Aulock and Kayhan references together draw on Anatolian collection material, making this one of the better-documented regional fractions in the literature.