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Trihemiobol
| Issuer | Kierion |
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| Year | 350 BC |
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| Reference(s) | BCD Thessaly I#1072, BMC Greek#2, BCD Thessaly II#99 |
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| Reverse lettering | ΚΙΕΡΙΕΙΩΝ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Kierion was a minor Thessalian polis of limited political reach, and its coinage reflects exactly that — a small, local series produced for regional exchange rather than any broader ambition. The trihemiobol denomination itself, worth one and a half obols, was a workhorse of small-scale market transactions in Thessaly, where fractional silver filled the gaps that larger denominations could not.
The BCD references place this piece within one of the most rigorously documented Thessalian collections ever assembled, the Beistegui Collection die studies having significantly refined the attribution sequence for Kierion issues that earlier scholarship, including the BMC, had treated rather carelessly.