Hemiobol

Kyme was among the earliest Greek colonies on the Aeolian coast of Asia Minor and one of the first cities in the region to adopt coinage, likely under commercial pressure from neighboring Lydian and Ionian trade networks. The hemiobol denomination — the smallest practical unit of the archaic silver system — was produced in quantities large enough to facilitate everyday market exchange, though surviving examples at this weight are extremely fragile and frequently damaged or poorly preserved.

SNG Copenhagen 34 places this type firmly within the early archaic series, before Kyme's coinage developed the more standardized flans of the fifth century.