Hemiobol

Neandria was a minor Troad city whose independent coinage was already in decline by the mid-fifth century BC, as the region fell increasingly under Persian and later Athenian sphere pressure. The hemiobol denomination served fractional daily exchange — wages, market transactions — where larger silver was impractical. At 0.30 g, attrition and loss rates were extreme, and surviving examples attributable to SNG Kayhan 1137 are genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.