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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Apollonia Pontika |
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| Year | 540 BC - 530 BC |
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| Reference(s) | HGC 3.2#1326 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Apollonia Pontika (Sozopol, modern Bulgaria) |
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Apollonia Pontika — modern Sozopol on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast — was a Milesian colony founded around 610 BC, and its early coinage reflects the western Pontic region's rapid integration into Aegean trade networks. These fractional silvers circulated alongside the colony's anchor-type staters, serving commerce at the smallest transactional level in a port economy built on grain and timber moving westward toward Greece.
The HGC 3.2 reference places this among the earliest issues from the mint, predating the colony's mature series by several decades.