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Obol
| Issuer | Ialysos |
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| Year | 490 BC - 480 BC |
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| Value | Obol (⅙) |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a winged boar advancing to the right, rendered in archaic Greek style with visible wing feathering and trotting forelegs; the head is lowered and turned slightly, conveying dynamic movement. The figure occupies the full field of this small flan, with the incuse technique lending the design a bold, raised relief characteristic of early Rhodian island coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (490 BC - 480 BC) |
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Ialysos was one of the three principal Doric settlements on Rhodes before the synoikism of 408 BC consolidated them into the new city of Rhodes. This tiny issue predates that unification by the better part of a century, making it a product of a city-state that effectively ceased to exist as an independent political entity within a few generations of striking it.