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Trihemiobol
| Issuer | Assos (Troad) |
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| Year | 340 BC - 320 BC |
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| Currency | Persic siglos/drachm |
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| Reverse description | Facing bull's head rendered frontally in high relief, with prominent upswept horns and large eyes, occupying the center of the field. The ethnic legend ΑΣΣΙΟΝ is arranged around the bull's head, with individual letters distributed in the quadrants between the horns and below. A bunch of grapes appears to the right of the bull's head, serving as a secondary type symbol alluding to the agricultural prosperity of the region. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΣΣΙΟΝ |
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Assos operated as a genuinely independent polis only briefly. From around 350 BC the city was governed by Hermias, a former slave and student of Plato who turned the Troad into something of a philosophical enclave — Aristotle lived and taught there for roughly three years before Hermias was captured and executed by the Persians around 341 BC. The coinage of this narrow window reflects a city navigating between Macedonian pressure, Persian reach, and its own surprising intellectual ambitions.
The trihemiobol denomination — one and a half obols — points to small-scale local exchange rather than regional trade.