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Triobol
| Issuer | Argos |
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| Year | 330 BC - 270 BC |
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| Weight | 2.73 g |
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| Obverse description | A forepart of a wolf advancing to the left is depicted in high relief against a plain field, the animal's open jaws rendered with expressive naturalism characteristic of Argive die engraving. The muscular forequarters and articulated forepaws are shown in three-quarter perspective, conveying vigorous movement. The wolf, sacred to Apollo, served as a prominent civic emblem of Argos and appears here without accompanying legend or border decoration. The flan is irregularly shaped, as typical of hand-struck Peloponnesian silver of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Argos maintained one of the more conservative minting programs in the Peloponnese, clinging to its archaic wolf's-head imagery long after neighboring cities had adopted more Hellenistic conventions. The triobol — half a drachm — served primarily in local and regional exchange, rarely traveling far from the Argolid in circulation patterns traceable through hoards.
The sixty-year window of this issue spans the aftermath of Macedonian dominance under Philip II and the turbulent fragmentation following Alexander's death, during which Argos navigated shifting Macedonian and Ptolemaic pressures without surrendering its mint's autonomy.