Diobol

Dardanos was a minor coastal polis in the Troad, overshadowed commercially and politically by nearby Lampsakos and Abydos, both of which controlled far more traffic along the Hellespont. That this city struck its own fractional silver at all suggests a degree of civic ambition — or at minimum, a local mercantile need — that its historical footprint rarely conveys. The SNG Copenhagen 280 reference places this piece among a small, tightly grouped corpus; the type is uncommon enough that die links between surviving specimens have been studied to estimate a production run of very limited scope.