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Obol
| Issuer | Dikaia (Macedon) |
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| Year | 500 BC - 465 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | An octopus depicted with its body at centre and eight tentacles radiating and curling downward and outward, filling the square incuse punch. The tentacles are rendered with sinuous, curvilinear detail characteristic of early fifth-century Macedonian coinage. The design is set within a shallow square incuse, with no surrounding legend or inscription. |
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| Mint | Dikaia |
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Dikaia was a small coastal settlement on the Chalcidic peninsula, almost certainly a Eretrian colony, and its autonomous coinage was produced during a narrow window before Macedonian and later Athenian pressures absorbed the region's political independence. The city disappears from the numismatic record shortly after Xerxes' invasion corridor cut through the northern Aegean in 480 BC, making issues from the later end of this date range particularly difficult to attribute with confidence.
SNG ANS 473 remains the primary anchor for this type's classification.