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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Ionian city |
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| Year | 550 BC - 500 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Quadripartite incuse square divided into four equal recessed compartments by a raised cross, the classic mill-sail or windmill pattern characteristic of early Greek archaic coinage. The incuse is deeply struck and roughly rectangular, set within the plain, granular field of the irregular flan. No legend or inscription is present. This type of reverse is typical of sixth-century BC Ionian and Aegean coinage, serving as a functional anvil impression from the minting process. |
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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.