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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Kolophon |
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| Year | 525 BC - 500 BC |
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| Weight | 0.41 g |
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| Obverse description | Archaic male head facing left, rendered in the early Ionian artistic style characteristic of late 6th-century BC Kolophon coinage. The effigy, identified as Apollo, displays schematic facial features with a prominent eye, broad nose, and archaic smile. The hair is depicted in a striated or beaded arrangement across the crown, with a curling lock visible before the ear. The compact flan and shallow relief are typical of this denomination and period. |
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| Mintage | ND (525 BC - 500 BC) |
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Kolophon was among the earliest Greek cities in Ionia to adopt coinage, and its fractional silver issues from this period reflect a mint operating at the extreme lower end of practical denomination — a hemiobol representing roughly one-twelfth of a drachm. At 0.41g, these pieces were struck for daily small transactions in a port economy where electrum and silver fractions circulated alongside each other. The SNG von Aulock specimens catalogued at 1808–1809 remain among the primary reference points for attributing these diminutive fractions.