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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Uncertain Troan city |
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| Year | 500 BC - 400 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Corinthian helmet with prominent transverse crest depicted facing right, rendered in profile within a roughly circular flan. The helmet bowl, cheek-guards, and neck-guard are summarily but recognizably articulated in the archaic style typical of fifth-century Troadic coinage. The design occupies the full field with no surrounding legend or border. |
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| Mintage | ND (500 BC - 400 BC) |
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The Troad — the northwestern Anatolian region anchored by the site of ancient Troy — produced an unusually dense cluster of small autonomous mints during the fifth century BC, many of which remain unattributed with certainty. Hemiobols from this region circulated as fractional currency in a local economy shaped by proximity to Greek colonial trade routes and Persian satrapal administration simultaneously. The attribution problem is genuine: shared iconographic conventions and the absence of ethnic legends on pieces this small make definitive civic assignment nearly impossible without a documented hoard provenance.