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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Argos |
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| Year | 420 BC - 410 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (420 BC - 410 BC) |
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Argos spent much of the fifth century BC diplomatically maneuvering between Sparta and Athens, signing a notable fifty-year peace with Sparta in 451 BC and then pivoting toward Athens after that treaty collapsed. Small fractional silver like this hemiobol functioned at the lowest practical denominator of daily market exchange — the kind of coin dropped in a fishmonger's stall rather than carried to a treasury.
The BCD collection reference places this firmly within a tightly studied die sequence. BCD Peloponnesos lot 1037 is part of what remains the authoritative modern grouping for Argive fractions of this period.