Hemiobol

Kyrene's fractional silver coinage of this period reflects the city's unusual monetary position: wealthy enough from silphium exports to maintain a sophisticated coinage system down to very small denominations, yet operating at the edge of Ptolemaic influence following the death of Magas's father-in-law Ptolemy I. The hemiobol circulated in a city that was, by the 290s, effectively a Ptolemaic client state while still striking civic types.