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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Tarentum |
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| Year | 280 BC - 228 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (280 BC - 228 BC) |
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Tarentum's fractional silver issues of this period were struck under the shadow of near-constant military crisis — the city had called in Pyrrhus of Epirus in 280 BC precisely because it could not defend itself against Roman encroachment, and his departure in 275 BC left it exposed and eventually capitulating to Rome in 272 BC. Small denominations like this one likely served port commerce in a city whose wealth depended entirely on trade across the Adriatic.
At 0.14 g, survival in any condition is genuinely unusual. Pieces this size were easily lost and rarely hoarded.