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Diobol
| Issuer | Miletos (Ionia) |
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| Year | 510 BC - 494 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Mint | Miletus, Ionia, modern-day Balat, Turkey |
| Mintage | ND (510 BC - 494 BC) |
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Miletos was the dominant Greek city on the Ionian coast and one of the earliest adopters of coinage in the Greek world, but this particular window of production ended violently. The city led the Ionian Revolt against Persian rule beginning in 499 BC, and after six years of war, Darius I's forces sacked Miletos in 494 BC — massacring much of the population, enslaving the survivors, and ending the city's minting operations entirely for a generation. Coins struck in this period are products of a city at the height of its commercial ambition, just before annihilation.