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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Ionian city |
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| Year | 475 BC - 425 BC |
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| Value | Obol (⅙) |
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| Reverse description | Lion's head facing full-front, depicted in bold high relief with a wide open mouth, large circular eye, and a radiating mane rendered as a series of incuse strokes around the perimeter. The frontal leonine type is a hallmark of archaic Ionian civic coinage and is executed with strong, stylized musculature. The field is plain and bears no inscription. The strike is slightly off-center, typical of hammered obol-sized flans of this era. |
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| Mintage | ND (475 BC - 425 BC) |
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The attribution of small Ionian fractional silver from this period remains genuinely contested. Dozens of minor coastal cities along the Aegean littoral struck obols and hemiobols in the fifth century, and without a secure hoard provenance, distinguishing one civic issue from another at this weight class is often impossible — the dies were cut locally, sometimes by the same itinerant engravers working across multiple poleis.