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Triobol
| Issuer | Cranii (Elis) |
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| Year | 480 BC - 400 BC |
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| Reference(s) | BMC Greek#2-9 , HGC 6#127 , Traité I#1272-1274 Copenhagen#452-453 Delepierre#2237-2238 , de Luynes#2268-2270 , Dewing#1910 1#2176-2177 |
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| Reverse lettering | ΚΡΑ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Cranii was one of four principal cities of Kephallenia, the large Ionian island off the western Greek coast, and maintained its own silver coinage largely independent of pan-Achaean monetary conventions. The city's output was modest by any measure, and the survival of multiple reference examples across the major 19th-century collections — Copenhagen, de Luynes, Dewing — suggests systematic acquisition rather than widespread circulation finds.
Kephallenia sided with Athens during the Peloponnesian War, a political alignment that shaped the island's trade networks and likely the distribution of its coinage.