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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Tragilos |
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| Year | 450 BC - 400 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bunch of grapes depicted in high relief at centre of the field, with a short stem and tendril extending upward. The fruit clusters are rendered in a bold, naturalistic style characteristic of early Macedonian civic coinage. The flan is irregular and slightly ragged at the edges, consistent with hand-struck silver issues of the period. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Tragilos was a small Macedonian coastal settlement on the Strymon river, and its independent coinage — of which this hemiobol is among the most diminutive examples — ceased entirely after Philip II absorbed the region into the Macedonian kingdom in the mid-fourth century. The city's numismatic output is sparse enough that even individual die links across surviving specimens have been studied to estimate total production, which was almost certainly modest by any measure.