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Diobol
| Issuer | Kroton |
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| Year | 300 BC - 250 BC |
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| Value | Diobol (⅓) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 250 BC) |
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Kroton, the powerful Achaean colony on the toe of Italy, was in steep decline by this period. The city had never recovered from its catastrophic defeat by the Lucanians at the Laos River around 390 BC, and by the mid-third century it was increasingly absorbed into the orbit of Roman expansion. Small silver fractions like this diobol likely circulated in a local economy already stressed by decades of Bruttian pressure and the shifting alliances of the Pyrrhic War.
The absence of an HN Italy reference number suggests this type remains either unattributed to a specific die study or incompletely catalogued — not unusual for the minor fractional silver of Magna Graecia.