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Trihemiobol
| Issuer | Phagres |
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| Year | 450 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Quadripartite incuse square of windmill or millsail form, with four rectangular compartments arranged in a pinwheel pattern around a central dividing cruciform ridge. The deeply recessed incuse design is sharply struck, with alternating raised and sunken sections creating the characteristic swastika-like appearance associated with early Macedonian coinage. The surface of the incuse shows characteristic granulation and flow lines from the striking process. The flan edges are irregular, consistent with hand-cut planchets of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Phagres was a small mining settlement in the Strymon River region of Thrace, operating during a period when the silver deposits of the broader Pangaion district — the same mountain range that would later finance Philip II of Macedon's military expansion — were attracting autonomous coinage from even minor communities. The trihemiobol denomination itself, worth one and a half obols, points to a local economy where fractional silver served practical exchange rather than inter-regional trade.
Issues from Phagres are among the rarest of all Thracian civic coinages; the settlement left almost no written record.