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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Sermyle |
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| Year | 525 BC - 500 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Incuse square divided into four quadrants by a cruciform pattern, consistent with the mill-sail or quadripartite incuse type common to early Macedonian and Chalcidian coinage of the late Archaic period. Each quadrant displays alternating raised and sunken triangular sections, creating a distinctive geometric effect. The incuse is deeply struck and well-centred on the irregular flan. No inscription or legend is present. The technique reflects the standard hammered incuse method employed in the region during the late sixth century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (525 BC - 500 BC) |
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Sermyle was a small Chalcidian colony on the Sithonian peninsula of Macedon, historically overshadowed by its more powerful neighbors. The city appears briefly in Thucydides in connection with the Athenian campaigns in the region, but its independent coinage is rare enough that the corpus remains poorly understood. This hemidrachm belongs to the earliest phase of Greek colonial silver production in the northern Aegean, a period when even minor settlements were asserting civic identity through coin issue.
The SNG Ashmolean 2400 reference places this piece within a tightly documented but numerically small group.