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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Teos |
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| Year | 540 BC - 478 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Griffin seated to the right in high relief, rendered in the Archaic Greek style with finely engraved feathered wings swept upward and backward, a lion's haunches and forelegs with prominent claws, and an eagle's beaked head with a pointed knob or spike atop the skull. The body exhibits detailed feather treatment along the wing coverts, and the curled mane at the chest is carefully articulated. The field to the right is plain and unlettered, consistent with the early coinage of Teos in Ionia. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Teos, the Ionian Greek city on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, was a significant commercial hub whose coinage circulated widely through eastern Mediterranean trade networks. The city is also notable as the birthplace of Anacreon. When the Persians under Harpagus advanced on Ionia around 545 BC, the majority of Teans abandoned the city entirely and relocated to Abdera in Thrace rather than submit — one of the more dramatic collective acts of resistance in the Greek world. Those who remained eventually came to terms with Achaemenid authority, and coinage continued under Persian suzerainty.