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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Uncertain Cilician city |
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| Year | 400 BC - 301 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Mounted horseman advancing to left, attired in satrapal headdress and Persian court dress, with left hand extended apparently grasping a scepter or staff; the figure is rendered in the abbreviated style characteristic of small Cilician silver fractions of the fourth century BC. |
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| Reverse description | Standing male figure facing left, right hand raised and holding a scepter or staff; to the right of the figure appears a hook-shaped tamgha or dynastic symbol in the field, a device attested on several uncertain Cilician civic issues of the Achaemenid period. |
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Cilicia in the fourth century was a patchwork of semi-autonomous cities operating under shifting Achaemenid oversight, and small fractional silver like this hemiobol was the workhorse of local market exchange — too minor for tribute, too necessary to ignore. The Brindley collection reference places this piece within a recognized but poorly documented group; attribution to a specific city remains unresolved, which is not unusual given how many Cilician mints produced near-identical fractions during this period.