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Trihemiobol
| Issuer | Selge |
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| Year | 370 BC - 360 BC |
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| Value | Trihemiobol (1/4) |
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| Obverse description | Facing gorgoneion (head of Medusa) depicted full face, rendered in the archaic apotropaic style characteristic of Pisidian civic coinage. The mask displays the distinctive features of the type: wide staring eyes, flat nose, and protruding tongue, framed by coiling serpents forming the hair. The design fills the flan with bold, deeply cut relief suited to the small module of this fractional silver issue. No legend or inscription appears in the field. |
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| Mint | Selge (Pisidia) |
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Selge was an unusually tenacious city — a Pisidian stronghold in the Taurus highlands that resisted Alexander's advance in 334 BC and remained effectively autonomous long after most of Anatolia had submitted. These fractional silver issues predate that confrontation by roughly a generation, circulating in a highland economy largely insulated from coastal Greek monetary networks. The trihemiobol denomination itself is rare in Pisidian coinage, and Selge's consistent output of small silver fractions suggests a local commercial infrastructure more developed than the region's remote geography might imply.