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Trihemiobol
| Issuer | Dardanos |
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| Year | 480 BC |
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| Value | Trihemiobol (1/4) |
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| Reverse description | Undecorated rough incuse square punch occupying the majority of the reverse field, with irregular raised ridges and facets resulting from the hammer strike. The incuse depression is divided into quadrants by raised lines forming a mill-sail pattern, characteristic of early Archaic Greek coinage technique. The surrounding flan surface is irregular and unworked, with no inscription, legend, or secondary device. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Dardanos, a small Troad settlement on the Asian shore of the Hellespont, minted sparingly and briefly, likely as a practical necessity for local port commerce rather than civic ambition. Its coinage is among the least documented of the Troad series, and attribution of individual pieces has shifted more than once in the scholarly literature.
480 BC places this coin in the same year Xerxes crossed the Hellespont — almost certainly within sight of Dardanos itself.