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Macedonia. Eion
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Sear 1295; HGC 3, 521; SNG ANS 287-90; SNG Copenhagen 177-178; BMC Macedonia p. 74, 11
AR trihemiobol or diobol; struck ca. 460-400 B.C.; .93 g., 12.0 mm. max.
Obv: Goose standing right, head left; lizard above; H to lower left
Rev: Quadripartite incuse square
Eion, on the river Strymon, was only about three miles from Amphipolis and from the late 5th century onwards served merely as a seaport of its much larger neighbor.
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