Diobol

Knidos occupied a strategically awkward peninsula at the southwestern tip of Anatolia, and its early coinage reflects a mint operating within the Persian sphere while maintaining distinctly Greek monetary conventions. The diobol denomination served inter-regional trade rather than large commercial exchange — small silver that passed between sailors, merchants, and craftsmen at the harbor. Knidos was a member of the Delian League after 478 BC, though this piece almost certainly predates that alignment, placing it in the transitional decades when Aegean cities were still negotiating their relationship with Achaemenid authority.