Hemiobol

Soloi was one of the most Hellenized cities in Cilicia, reputedly so full of Greek settlers who mangled their own language that the word "solecism" derives from their speech. The city's silver fractional coinage of this period was struck under nominal Persian suzerainty, yet the types chosen were defiantly Greek in character — a small act of civic identity pressed into less than a third of a gram of metal.