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Diobol
| Issuer | Uncertain Bactrian city (Baktria) |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
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| Value | Diobol (⅓) |
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| Reverse description | Head of a roaring lion facing right, shown in three-quarter view with open jaws and deeply incised mane rendered as a radiating pattern of striated feather-like locks filling the left portion of the field. Beneath the lion's head, a bunch of grapes on a short stem is positioned in the lower right field, serving as a civic or regional symbol. The type is uninscribed, and the flan is irregular with a characteristically rough surface typical of hammered Bactrian silver fractions of the pre-Hellenistic period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bactria's pre-Alexandrian coinage remains one of the least-documented areas in Greek numismatics. Issues from this period predate the Macedonian conquest of 329–327 BC and the subsequent Seleucid administrative reorganization, meaning attribution to any specific mint — Bactra, Taxila, or otherwise — is largely inferential. The weight standard here aligns with the Achaemenid-influenced reduced Attic system common to the eastern satrapies, not the Aeginetan or full Attic standards of the western Greek world.