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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Ionian city |
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| Year | 550 BC - 500 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Head of a calf facing left, rendered in bold archaic style with characteristic schematic eye and snout. A raised oblong pellet-band or seed-pod motif appears at the lower right of the flan, possibly representing an ear of grain or a decorative border element. The design is set within an irregularly shaped, hand-struck flan typical of early Ionian silver coinage. No legend or inscription is present in the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The attribution of electrum and early silver fractions from the Ionian coast remains genuinely contested — dozens of small city-states were striking similar coinages in the sixth century BC, and without a controlling type or explicit ethnic, mint assignment often comes down to stylistic judgment calls that specialists still argue over. The absence of a confirmed issuer here is not an omission; it is the honest state of scholarship.