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Macedon AR Hemiobol Bull/ Grapes

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Working a bit more on my Greek silvers; slow going as the anepigraphic ones are tough cookies!

Macedonian tribes, Dikaia?, c. 450-425 BC
AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.35g)
Forepart of bull right
Grape bunch in incuse square, border of dots

Unpublished?
Macedon-AR-Hemiobol-Bull/-Grapes

I was only able to track down two more of this type:
https://www.biddr.ch/auctions/savoc...173&l=157046
https://www.biddr.ch/auctions/savoc...152&l=136043

I think those are a match? Nether has the dotted border, and have a prominent stem on the leaf, which I am still strongly inclined to describe as a bunch of grapes, although that turns up nil in any auction archive.

E: found a better match:
https://www.cNGCoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=344480
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Nice tiny coin.
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I have seen this coin somewhere I a town of mainland Greece , but don t remenber me .I was checking Maroneia , known for his wine in Antiquity and found this . I hope it will help you . albert
https://hogsheadwine.wordpress.com/...-of-maroeia/
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I was thinking the leaves are bunches of grapes.
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Man, I don't know what kind of magic you guys did on the archives, but I tried the search again, and look what came up:

https://www.cNGCoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=344480

I knew it had to be a bunch of grapes, and Macedon was my second guess based on the artistry of the bull's head.
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MACEDON, Dikaia. Circa 450-425/0 BC. AR Hemiobol (7.5mm, 0.29 g, 9h). Head of bull right / Grape bunch in dotted square within incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references, but cf. VAuctions 270, lot 112 for a similar piece with ethnic of Dikaia.
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Good coin and glad you could track it down :)
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