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Trihemiobol
| Issuer | Lete (Macedon) |
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| Year | 500 BC - 480 BC |
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| Value | Trihemiobol (¼) |
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| Obverse description | Nude ithyphallic satyr depicted in a dynamic kneeling pose, facing right, with arms extended and body in three-quarter view. Two pellets flank the figure on either side, serving as denominational indicators. The satyr's facial features are rendered in an archaic style with bold, slightly grotesque modeling characteristic of early Macedonian coinage. The figure occupies nearly the full flan, with the muscular form and exaggerated proportions typical of the artistic conventions of the late Archaic period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lete was a small settlement in the Thermaic Gulf region whose coinage, produced in the decades bracketing the Persian invasions, almost certainly drew on silver from the rich mines of the Pangaion massif that made this corner of Macedon commercially significant to Greek and Thracian alike. The precise civic identity of the issuing authority remains contested — whether Lete functioned as an independent polis or under looser Macedonian or Thracian overlordship during this period is unresolved in the scholarship.
The ANS and BMC references anchor this piece firmly within a recognized typological sequence, though die-link studies on Lete's fractional silver remain sparse.