Tetartemorion

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背面描述	Quadripartite incuse square divided by a raised cross into four recessed compartments, each showing rough, irregular surfaces typical of early hammered archaic coinage. The incuse punch is deeply struck and slightly off-centre, a hallmark of small fractional silver issues from Ionian mints of the classical period.
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铸币厂	Mint of Teos
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附加信息	Teos, the Ionian Greek city on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, was home to the poet Anacreon and, more practically, one of the ancient world's principal sources of kition — a bitumen-like substance traded across the Mediterranean. These fractional silver coins funded a local economy operating on genuinely tiny transactions. At roughly a quarter of an obol, the tetartemorion was among the smallest denominations struck anywhere in the Greek world, and Teos produced them with a consistency that suggests real commercial demand rather than ceremonial issue.

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