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Drachm
| Issuer | Phlious |
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| Year | 430 BC - 420 BC |
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| Reference(s) | BCD Peloponnesos#87 |
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| Reverse description | Shallow incuse square containing a large four-spoked wheel or quadripartite disk, the design executed in the incuse technique characteristic of early Peloponnesian silver coinage. The wheel is centrally placed within the recessed square, with four segments created by two intersecting lines dividing the circle into equal quadrants. No legend or additional devices are present. |
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| Edge | Plain (irregular) |
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Phlious was a small polis in the northeastern Peloponnese, politically squeezed between Corinth, Argos, and Sikyon, and its coinage reflects that precariousness. The city oscillated between Spartan loyalty and Argive pressure through much of the fifth century, and its independent silver issues were never prolific. This decade-range places the coin squarely before the city's extended period of internal democratic-oligarchic conflict that eventually drew direct Spartan military intervention in the 380s BC.
BCD Peloponnesos 87 references the collection of a single dedicated specialist — the collector known as BCD whose Peloponnesian holdings became the standard reference point for this region's coinage precisely because institutional collections had neglected it.