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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Thasos |
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| Year | 463 BC - 411 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Incuse square containing a swastika pattern formed by four rectilinear arms, a standard decorative and apotropaic motif employed on archaic Greek coinage. The incuse is deeply struck with slightly irregular edges, typical of hammered small silver issues of the fifth century BC. |
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| Mint | Thasos |
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Thasos built its archaic and classical wealth almost entirely on silver mines in the Thracian mainland opposite the island, and on a wine trade protected by what ancient sources describe as a deliberate monopoly — foreign wines were banned from Thracian coastal markets the Thasians controlled. The hemiobol circulated at the extreme lower end of that economy, likely used in daily market transactions that larger denominations couldn't serve.
The Rosen collection reference places this among a well-documented hoard corpus, but individual specimens of this fractional denomination remain difficult to attribute precisely within the 52-year window — the types changed little.