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Obol
| Issuer | Ialysos |
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| Year | 490 BC - 480 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Eagle's head depicted in left profile, set within a dotted or beaded square border, itself contained within a shallow incuse square impressed into the flan. The design is executed with crisp archaic detail, the hooked beak and defined eye of the eagle clearly articulated despite the diminutive size of the flan. The incuse square is a hallmark of early Greek coinage technique and frames the type with geometric precision. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.