Hemiobol

Larissa's hemiobol from this period falls within the early coinage of Thessaly, a region that was slow to adopt silver coinage relative to its southern neighbors — local economies here ran heavily on livestock and agricultural exchange well into the fifth century. The tiny module places it among the smallest fractional denominations in circulation, likely used for small transactions at the markets for which Larissa was already regionally prominent.

The BCD references trace to the collection of a single dedicated Thessalian specialist whose assembled series remains the benchmark for attribution of these early fractions.