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Diobol

Issuer Samos
Year 480 BC - 439 BC
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Shape Round (irregular)
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Mint Samos
Mintage ND (480 BC - 439 BC)
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Samos in this period was navigating the aftermath of its failed revolt against Persian authority in 499 BC and, later, the complex politics of the Delian League, into which Athens forcibly enrolled the island following the Samian War of 440–439 BC. That war effectively ended Samian autonomy — the city's walls were torn down, its fleet confiscated, and an indemnity imposed. Coins struck in the final years of this range were almost certainly among the last produced before Athenian financial oversight curtailed independent minting on the island.

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