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Obol
| Issuer | Halikarnassos |
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| Year | 480 BC |
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| Value | Obol (⅙) |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of Pegasus to left, the winged horse rendered in archaic style with a prominent eye and swept-back wing tips visible along the upper field; the design is boldly struck in high relief against a plain field. |
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| Reverse description | Head of a goat facing left, rendered in compact archaic style within a shallow incuse square; three pellets arranged around the goat's head serve as decorative or denominational markers, the whole design deeply recessed within the incuse punch. |
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Halikarnassos in the early fifth century BC was a Carian city operating under Persian suzeranty, and its coinage reflects that uneasy dual identity — Hellenistic in form, yet minted under rulers answerable to Achaemenid authority. The city is best known to later history as the birthplace of Herodotus and the seat of the Hekatomnid dynasts, but at this date power rested with figures closer to the Persian administrative hierarchy. Coinage at this fractional weight served local market transactions where larger denominations would have been impractical.