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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Tarentum (Calabria) |
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| Year | 450 BC - 380 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | Θ |
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| Mintage | ND (450 BC - 380 BC) |
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Tarentum's fractional silver coinage of this period reflects the city's unusual monetary pragmatism — a Spartan colony that nonetheless embraced the full complexity of Greek commercial life, including denominations small enough to handle single-transaction retail in the agora. The hemiobol, at roughly a quarter of a day's wage for a laborer, filled a gap that larger fractions could not.
Vlasto 1739 places this among the later attributions in his exhaustive 1947 corpus, a classification that has held without serious challenge.