Hemiobol

Elaia was a minor Aeolian coastal settlement whose coinage punches well above its civic weight. The city's issues from this period are notable for their exceptionally small fabric — the hemiobol sits at the bottom of the fractional silver hierarchy, likely produced to facilitate local market transactions at the harbor rather than inter-regional trade. SNG Copenhagen 164 is among the few systematically catalogued specimens, which points to just how thinly these survive across major collections.