See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

Hemiobol

Issuer Stagira
Year 525 BC - 475 BC
Type Log in to see details
Value Hemiobol (1⁄12)
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Log in to see details
Weight Log in to see details
Diameter Log in to see details
Thickness Log in to see details
Shape Log in to see details
Technique Log in to see details
Orientation Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Log in to see details
Obverse script Log in to see details
Obverse lettering Log in to see details
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.
Reverse script Log in to see details
Reverse lettering Log in to see details
Edge Log in to see details
Mint Log in to see details
Mintage ND (525 BC - 475 BC)
Additional information

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.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE