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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A hippocampus depicted in right profile, occupying the central field, shown with the foreparts of a horse rearing upward and the hindquarters terminating in a coiled, scaled fish tail curving to the left. The creature's neck and chest are rendered with careful detail, and a harness or collar is indicated by a dotted or hatched band. The composition fills the flan, with no legend or exergual inscription present. The style is consistent with fourth-century Cilician coinage traditions. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cilicia in the fourth century was a patchwork of semi-autonomous cities operating under loose Achaemenid oversight, each asserting local identity partly through coinage. Small fractional silver — hemiobols in particular — circulated intensively at the street level, handling transactions that larger denominations couldn't. The attribution here remains uncertain precisely because dozens of Cilician mints produced nearly indistinguishable small fractions, and the SNG Levante comparative reference acknowledges the ambiguity rather than resolving it.