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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Neandria |
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| Year | 450 BC |
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| Value | Hemiobol (1⁄12) |
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| Reverse description | Amphora depicted facing, with broad ovoid body tapering to a pointed base, flanked on left and right by a row of pellets forming a rectangular border. The vessel's two handles curve outward symmetrically from the neck. The entire composition is set within a dotted square frame on a flat, incuse field. No legend is present. The style is consistent with archaic Troadean civic coinage of the mid-fifth century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Neandria was a minor Troad city whose independent coinage was already in decline by the mid-fifth century BC, as the region fell increasingly under Persian and later Athenian sphere pressure. The hemiobol denomination served fractional daily exchange — wages, market transactions — where larger silver was impractical. At 0.30 g, attrition and loss rates were extreme, and surviving examples attributable to SNG Kayhan 1137 are genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.