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Obol
| Issuer | Neapolis (Campania) |
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| Year | 320 BC - 300 BC |
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| Value | Obol (⅙) |
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| Reverse lettering | NEOΠOΛITΩN |
| Edge | Plain |
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Neapolis — modern Naples — had strong ties to the Greek world and struck its own coinage well into the period of Roman expansion in Campania. By the late fourth century, the city was navigating an increasingly precarious position between its Oscan neighbors and the growing reach of Rome, which would formally ally with Neapolis in 326 BC following the city's expulsion of a Samnite garrison. These obols likely circulated in that fractured, transitional economy where Greek civic identity was being slowly absorbed into a Roman-dominated Italy.