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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Stagira |
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| Year | 525 BC - 475 BC |
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| Weight | 0.35 g |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a boar advancing to the left, rendered in fine archaic style with detailed scaly hide and prominent bristled spine. The animal's muscular forequarters are depicted with characteristic early Greek naturalism, the snout lowered and legs outstretched in a striding pose. The type is the civic emblem of Stagira, a Greek colony on the Chalcidic peninsula. No legend or inscription appears in the field, which is otherwise plain. The flan is small and irregularly shaped, as typical of this denomination. |
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| Reverse description | Rough incuse square of irregular quadripartite form, deeply impressed into the flan by the punch of the anvil die. The incuse is divided into raised and recessed compartments by intersecting ridges, creating an asymmetric mill-sail or skew pattern within the square recess. This type of unfinished incuse reverse is characteristic of early archaic Greek coinage from northern Greece and the Chalcidic region. The surface within the incuse is rough and unpolished. No inscription or secondary device is present. |
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Stagira is better known as the birthplace of Aristotle than as a minting authority, yet the city operated an independent mint during this period — before its destruction by Philip II of Macedon in 349 BC. That sack effectively ended Stagiran civic coinage, making all issues from this mint terminus-bound survivors of a city that ceased to exist as an autonomous polis.