Diobol

The original Sybaris was destroyed by Kroton in 510 BC, its citizens reportedly driven out and the city flooded by diverting the river Krathis over the site. This diobol belongs to the refounded city — Thurii was established on or near the same ground in 444/443 BC under Athenian sponsorship, but the brief re-establishment of Sybaris itself in the 450s produced a small independent coinage before the colonists were expelled once more by the incoming Thurian settlers.