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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Eion |
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| Year | 460 BC - 400 BC |
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| Value | Hemiobol (1⁄12) |
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| Obverse description | A goose standing to right in profile, its head turned back to the left in a characteristic resting pose, rendered in low relief with fine feather detail visible on the body. The figure occupies the central field of the flan. The design is enclosed within a neat border of raised dots following the coin's irregular circular periphery. No legend or inscription is present. The type is the civic badge of Eion, a Thracian coastal city on the Strymon River. |
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| Reverse description | A quadripartite incuse square dominating the entire reverse field, divided by a raised cross-shaped ridge into four recessed triangular or rectangular compartments of roughly equal size, characteristic of the archaic mill-sail or windmill incuse type. The surface of the raised areas bears a granular texture from the hammer strike. No legend, inscription, or subsidiary device is present. This incuse punch design is typical of small silver fractions struck in the Thraco-Macedonian region during the fifth century BC. |
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| Mint | Eion, Thrace |
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