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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Soloi (Cilicia) |
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| Year | 410 BC - 375 BC |
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| Value | Hemiobol (1⁄12) |
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| Reverse description | A naturalistic bunch of grapes pendant from a short stalk, depicted in high relief with individual berries clearly articulated; the motif, emblematic of the fertile region of Cilicia, is set within a plain circular border, the entire design sunken within a shallow incuse square or circle as characteristic of early hammered coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Soloi was one of the most Hellenized cities in Cilicia, reputedly so full of Greek settlers who mangled their own language that the word "solecism" derives from their speech. The city's silver fractional coinage of this period was struck under nominal Persian suzerainty, yet the types chosen were defiantly Greek in character — a small act of civic identity pressed into less than a third of a gram of metal.