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Tritartemorion
| Issuer | Cranii (Elis) |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Value | Tritartemorion (1/8) |
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| Reverse description | Three T-shaped symbols (tau or digamma forms) arranged pinwheel-fashion about a central point, their arms radiating outward to form a triskelion-like device that served as the civic badge of Cranii. The Greek ethnic inscription ΚΡΑ is distributed between the three arms of the device, with individual letters placed in the spaces formed by the rotating taus. The design is boldly incuse, typical of the hammered small silver coinage of Elis in the 4th century BCE, and fills the flat, irregular flan without a border. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Cranii was one of the four principal cities of Cephallenia, and its autonomous coinage — produced sporadically through the fourth century — reflects the island's persistent effort to maintain civic identity despite Corinthian commercial dominance of the surrounding sea lanes. The tritartemorion, worth three-quarters of an obol, was among the smallest fractional denominations struck in the Greek world, and Cranii's choice to produce at this denomination suggests active small-transaction commerce rather than prestige minting.
The BMC Greek series records very few examples, and the surviving population remains thin.