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Diobol
| Issuer | Ialysos |
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| Year | 490 BC - 480 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a winged boar advancing to the left, rendered in archaic Greek style with bold, schematic musculature. The wings are depicted folded along the animal's back, and the legs are shown in mid-stride. The design fills the irregular flan with vigorous, deeply struck relief characteristic of early Rhodian island coinage. No legend or inscription is present in the field. |
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| Reverse description | Bust of an eagle facing left, depicted in profile within a dotted border forming a square frame, the entire design set within a recessed incuse square. The eagle's head is rendered with a hooked beak and stylized feathering typical of archaic Greek engraving. The incuse technique, with its characteristic sunken field, is consistent with early fifth-century BC coinage from the Dodecanese region. No inscription or legend appears on this side. |
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Ialysos was one of three major settlements on Rhodes before the island's synoikism of 408 BC unified them into the single city of Rhodes. This small fractional silver predates that merger by decades, issued when Ialysos maintained its own independent monetary output. Production appears to have been modest — the city's coinage is substantially rarer than that of neighboring Kamiros or Lindos from the same period, suggesting either limited minting activity or rapid absorption into wider Rhodian trading circuits where larger denominations dominated.