1/8 Siliqua - Zachary

Zachary was the last Greek-speaking pope, and his tenure marked the definitive break between the papacy and the Byzantine exarchate of Ravenna — a rupture accelerated by the Lombard seizure of Ravenna in 751, just one year before his death. These fractional silver pieces were struck as the papacy began functioning as a genuinely independent temporal authority for the first time, issuing coinage in its own right rather than under imperial sanction.

At 0.13 g, survival is almost entirely a matter of luck.