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Diobol
| Issuer | Methymna |
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| Year | 500 BC - 460 BC |
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| Value | Diobol (⅓) |
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| Obverse description | Facing Gorgoneion depicted in archaic style, with wide staring eyes, flared nostrils, and an open mouth baring teeth; the face is rendered with characteristic apotropaic intensity, surrounded by serpentine hair or locks framing the visage across the coin's field. |
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| Reverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing left, wearing a Corinthian helmet, depicted in profile within a dotted or beaded square border, the whole set within a recessed incuse square; the rendering is in the early archaic Greek style typical of Aeolian mint coinage of the early fifth century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (500 BC - 460 BC) |
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