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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Kebren |
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| Year | 500 BC - 480 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Ram's head in left profile, rendered in archaic style with boldly modeled horns curling above the forehead and a prominent eye visible in the field. The design is deeply struck and fills the flan, characteristic of early Aeolian coinage from Kebren. The surface of the flan is irregular, consistent with hand-struck production of the late Archaic period. |
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| Mintage | ND (500 BC - 480 BC) |
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Kebren was a minor Aeolian city in the Troad, sitting on the Kebren river inland from the Hellespont, and its coinage is among the scarcest of the region's archaic issues. The city was eventually absorbed into the Troad's shifting political orbit during the Persian consolidation of western Anatolia — which gives this hemiobol's dating window particular significance, falling squarely across Darius I's reorganization of Ionian tribute obligations after the failed revolt of 499–493 BC.