Hemiobol - Bull ΔΑ

Massalia — modern Marseille — was a Phocaean Greek colony founded around 600 BC that maintained striking autonomy well into the Roman period. This small bronze was issued during a decade of significant regional upheaval: Rome was actively dismantling the Arverni and Allobriges confederacies to the north, culminating in the creation of Gallia Transalpina around 121 BC. Massalia had actively supported Roman intervention, and the city's mint continued producing its own fractional coinage throughout this turbulent period as a functioning commercial entrepôt.