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Diobol
| Issuer | Kebren |
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| Year | 450 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Head of Apollon facing left, rendered in archaic style with rounded features and a compact helmet or close-cropped hair. The portrait is executed in low relief with broad, somewhat stylized modeling typical of early fifth-century BC Troad coinage. The flan is irregular and slightly ragged at the edges, consistent with hand-struck silver production. No inscription or legend is present in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (-450) |
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Kebren was a minor Aeolian city in the Troad, situated on the Kebren river, and its coinage output was limited enough that most surviving examples trace to a handful of dies. The city fell under Persian-backed dynastic control during the fifth century and was eventually absorbed — first politically, then physically — when Antigonus forcibly synoikized its population into the newly founded Antigoneia around 306 BC, ending civic coin production entirely.
The SNG von Aulock 1546 reference places this piece within a small, well-documented group, but Kebrenian silver of any denomination remains scarce in the market.