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Trihemiobol
| Issuer | Teos |
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| Year | 460 BC - 420 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Griffin seated to right in profile, the creature depicted with characteristic raptor features and leonine body; the left forepaw raised in a heraldic pose. An astragalos (knucklebone) is placed to the right of the griffin in the field. The design is rendered in archaic Greek artistic style typical of Ionian mint production of the Classical period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Teos, the Ionian coastal city best known as the birthplace of the lyric poet Anacreon, operated a mint with an unusually consistent output during the fifth century BC despite the city's turbulent political position — caught between Athenian league obligations and Persian pressure from the interior. The trihemiobol, worth one and a half obols, was a denomination that answered real commercial need in a port economy where small-value exchange was constant.
Teos briefly abandoned its city entirely around 544 BC when Harpagus threatened it, but by this issue's period the population had returned and the mint was active within the Delian League framework.