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Hemichalkon
| Issuer | Thourioi |
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| Year | 300 BC - 280 BC |
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| Weight | 1.14 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Thourioi was a Panhellenic foundation of 444/3 BC, planted by Athens on the site of destroyed Sybaris in a deliberate act of colonial diplomacy — Herodotus himself reportedly settled there. By the late fourth century, the city was caught between Lucanian pressure from the interior and the encroaching ambitions of Tarentum, circumstances that ultimately led Thourioi to invite Roman military intervention in 282 BC. Small fractional bronzes like this hemichalkon were the everyday transactional currency of that compressed, increasingly anxious final generation of genuine civic independence.