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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Kyme |
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| Year | 480 BC - 450 BC |
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| Value | Hemiobol (1⁄12) |
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| Reverse description | Incuse square punch of irregular quadripartite form, divided into sections by raised ridges, creating a mill-sail or quartered pattern within the sunken square. This type of incuse reverse is characteristic of early Aeolian fractional silver coinage and served primarily as a countermark to confirm the coin's silver content and authenticity. No legend or figural type is present. The incuse is deeply struck and asymmetric, consistent with hand-hammered archaic technique. |
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| Mint | Kyme (Aeolis) |
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Kyme was among the oldest and most prosperous of the Aeolian Greek settlements on the western Anatolian coast, but its small silver fractions remain poorly understood as a series. The SNG Copenhagen reference covers a narrow die grouping, and the chronology placing these pieces in the 480–450 range is largely inferential, derived from stylistic comparison rather than hoard evidence.
At 0.48g, this is fractional coinage at its most marginal — struck for transactions the larger denominations simply couldn't accommodate.