Hemiobol

Cilicia in the fourth century was a patchwork of semi-autonomous cities operating under loose Achaemenid oversight, each asserting local identity partly through coinage. Small fractional silver — hemiobols in particular — circulated intensively at the street level, handling transactions that larger denominations couldn't. The attribution here remains uncertain precisely because dozens of Cilician mints produced nearly indistinguishable small fractions, and the SNG Levante comparative reference acknowledges the ambiguity rather than resolving it.