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Triobol
| Issuer | Argos |
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| Year | 490 BC - 470 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a wolf advancing to the left in bold archaic relief, with open jaws and extended forelegs. A retrograde letter sigma (S) is incised on the neck of the wolf. The flan is irregular and the fabric typical of early Argive coinage, with strong relief and a somewhat flat surrounding field. |
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| Mintage | ND (490 BC - 470 BC) |
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Argos sat out the Persian Wars almost entirely — a calculated neutrality that left the city diplomatically isolated from the victorious Greek coalition but militarily intact after its catastrophic defeat by Sparta at the Battle of Sepeia around 494 BC, which by Herodotus's account killed the majority of Argive fighting men. The coinage of this period reflects a polis rebuilding its civic institutions under considerable constraint, with minting activity resuming cautiously as the citizen rolls recovered through the enfranchisement of perioikoi and former slaves.
BCD 1017 sits in a transitional phase between Archaic die-cutting conventions and early Classical production, making precise dating within the two-decade window genuinely difficult.