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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Kasolaba |
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| Year | 400 BC - 340 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Bare head of a youthful male figure facing right, rendered with fine detail including carefully delineated wavy hair swept back from the forehead and delicate facial features. The portrait displays a naturalistic Greco-Lycian style consistent with fourth-century artistic conventions of the region. The head is set within a shallow round incuse, a hallmark technique of early Lycian fractional silver coinage. The neck is truncated cleanly at the lower border of the incuse. No legend or inscription appears in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (400 BC - 340 BC) |
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Kasolaba was a dynastic city in Caria, operating under the broader Persian satrapal framework that allowed regional rulers to strike their own silver — a privilege that produced an extraordinary variety of small-denomination coinage across western Anatolia in the fourth century. The hemiobol itself, at roughly half an obol, was the lowest practical unit of silver exchange, used for transactions too small for anything heavier.
Almost nothing is documented about Kasolaba's mint administration specifically, and the city's political history remains poorly reconstructed. The type is known primarily from a handful of specimens.