Diobol

Without a confirmed issuing authority, attributing this piece involves navigating one of the more contested areas of archaic Greek numismatics. Dozens of city-states across the Aegean, Asia Minor, and the western colonies struck diobols of near-identical weight during this half-century, many before establishing the distinctive type identities that later make attribution straightforward. The absence of an ethnic or symbol precise enough to pin down the mint is itself historically informative — early Greek coinage identity was still consolidating.