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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Phlious |
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| Year | 430 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered, Incuse |
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| Reverse description | Within a shallow incuse square, a dotted border frames a large phi (Φ), the initial letter of Phlious, rendered in bold strokes with a central pellet filling the loop; a single pellet is placed in each of the four corners of the dotted square. The stark, geometric composition is characteristic of early Peloponnesian coinage employing an incuse reverse type. |
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| Mintage | ND (-430) |
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Phlious was a small polis in the northeastern Peloponnese whose coinage output was modest and chronologically compressed — most issues attributed to the city cluster tightly in the fifth century before tapering off entirely. The city's political history complicated its numismatic record: Phlious spent much of the classical period oscillating between Spartan loyalty and democratic faction, suffering two Spartan-enforced sieges before settling into Lacedaemonian orbit. Coinage likely ceased or became erratic during these disruptions.
BCD 82 is among the better-documented attributions from the BCD Peloponnesos collection sale, which remains the primary reference for this mint.