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Hemitetartemorion
| Issuer | Teos |
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| Year | 510 BC - 478 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Balcer#82 |
| Obverse description | Forepart of a griffin facing right, rendered in archaic style with characteristic open beak and prominent eye. The creature's head and neck are depicted with bold, deeply cut relief typical of early Ionian coinage. The design fills the small flan, with the griffin's curved neck and beak visible against a plain field. The striking is irregular due to the diminutive flan size, consistent with early fifth-century BC fractional coinage from Teos. |
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| Reverse description | Quadripartite incuse square divided into four triangular sections by two intersecting diagonal grooves, forming a windmill or mill-sail pattern within the incuse depression. The incuse is deeply struck and slightly irregular in outline, characteristic of archaic hammered technique on a very small silver flan. The reverse is entirely geometric with no inscriptions or additional devices, consistent with the standard reverse treatment of early Ionian fractional silver coinage of the late sixth to early fifth century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain, irregular |
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