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Diobol
| Issuer | Eion |
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| Year | 480 BC - 470 BC |
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| Diameter | 9 mm |
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| Obverse description | A goose standing to the right in profile, rendered in high relief with carefully engraved feather detail across the wing and body. The bird's head is turned back over its shoulder, with a curling crest or tuft visible above the head. A cluster of pellets appears to the upper left of the figure, a characteristic symbol associated with the coinage of Eion. The design is contained within the irregular flan with no encircling legend, consistent with early fifth-century BC Thracian civic coinage. |
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| Reverse description | A large, deeply recessed square incuse punch divided into four roughly equal quadrants by raised ridges meeting at the centre, creating a characteristic mill-sail or quadripartite pattern. The surface within the incuse is granular and irregular, reflecting the primitive striking technique of early Greek hammered coinage. No legend or additional devices are present. This type of incuse reverse is typical of archaic Greek silver fractional coinage from the northern Aegean region during the early Classical period. |
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| Mint | Eion |
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