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Diobol
| Issuer | Kebren |
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| Year | 500 BC - 450 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Quadripartite incuse square divided into four triangular sections by diagonal grooves, forming a characteristic windmill or saltire pattern. The incuse is deeply struck and irregular in outline, consistent with early archaic hammered technique. The surface within each quarter is rough and undecorated, typical of Aeolian fractional silver coinage of the late 6th to early 5th century BC. |
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Kebren was a minor Troad city whose coinage history is brief and poorly documented — the mint appears to have ceased production entirely by the late fifth century, likely absorbed into the broader political pressures exerted by neighboring Alexandrian-era consolidation. The city's coins turn up rarely in excavation contexts, suggesting limited circulation radius and small emission volumes. This diobol's survival in three major reference collections points to early twentieth-century dispersal from a concentrated find, possibly the same source lot.