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Obol
| Issuer | Koressia |
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| Year | 520 BC - 510 BC |
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| Reference(s) | HGC 6#578 |
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| Reverse description | Plain incuse square divided into four triangular compartments by two diagonal incised lines crossing at the center, forming a quadripartite mill-sail or windmill pattern, typical of early Greek archaic hammered coinage produced by a single punch stroke. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Koressia was one of several small poleis on the island of Keos, and its independent coinage issues are rare survivals from a period when even modest city-states on minor Aegean islands maintained the political apparatus to strike their own silver. The fragmentary nature of Koresian civic history — largely absorbed into Kean federal identity by the classical period — makes each attributed piece significant for what it implies about late archaic island autonomy.