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Tomis, the Black Sea Greek colony later known as the city where Ovid would spend his final years in exile, struck small bronze issues like this throughout the Hellenistic period as purely local currency — functional fractions circulating within the port economy rather than instruments of wider regional exchange. The HGC 3.2 1945 type falls within a two-century window that saw the city navigate shifting allegiances between Macedonian successor kingdoms and the growing pressure of Pontic influence under Mithridates VI.