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Obol
| Issuer | Holmoi |
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| Year | 380 BC - 375 BC |
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| Value | Obol (⅙) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena in right profile, wearing a crested Attic helmet adorned with a palmette motif on the bowl. The goddess's facial features are rendered in the archaic-to-early Classical style typical of Cilician civic issues of the period. The neck is plain, and the fields surrounding the effigy are unadorned. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Holmoi was a minor city on the coast of Cilicia, and its independent coinage output was limited to a narrow window before the region fell under increasing Persian administrative pressure. Very few civic authorities in Cilicia struck denominations this small, making the obol an outlier even within the already sparse numismatic record of the city. The SNG France and Levante specimens remain the primary reference anchors for attribution.