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Diobol
| Issuer | Herakleia Pontika (Bithynia) |
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| Year | 425 BC - 400 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bearded head of Herakles facing left, wearing the scalp of the Nemean lion as a headdress, with the lion's mane rendered in fine scalloped detail cascading around the neck and shoulders. The hero's facial features are boldly modelled in archaic style, with a pronounced brow, almond-shaped eye, and a full curled beard rendered in small globular locks. The lion's paws are knotted at the chest, visible at the lower right of the field. The flan is slightly irregular, characteristic of early hammered coinage from this mint. |
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| Reverse description | A square incuse depression dominates the reverse, within which the civic ethnic ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΑ is arranged around a raised inner square subdivided into four equal compartments by a cruciform pattern, forming a grid of four smaller squares. The letters of the legend are distributed across the four sides of the incuse border — ΗΡ at the top, Α to the right, ΕΥ at the bottom, and Κ/Λ to the left — in early archaic Greek characters. The deeply punched incuse square with its geometric sub-division is a hallmark of the early coinage of Herakleia Pontika, reflecting contemporary Pontic mint practice of the late fifth century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (425 BC - 400 BC) |
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