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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Facing female head, depicted frontally and centered within the field, wearing a crested Attic helmet adorned with a plume swept to the right. The hair falls in loose strands along the sides of the face, and a pendant earring is visible at the lower left. The effigy is rendered in the fine archaic-to-classical Cilician style, with delicate facial features and a calm, idealized expression. No legend or inscription is present in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (400 BC - 301 BC) |
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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.