Trihemiobol

Selge was an unusually tenacious city — a Pisidian stronghold in the Taurus highlands that resisted Alexander's advance in 334 BC and remained effectively autonomous long after most of Anatolia had submitted. These fractional silver issues predate that confrontation by roughly a generation, circulating in a highland economy largely insulated from coastal Greek monetary networks. The trihemiobol denomination itself is rare in Pisidian coinage, and Selge's consistent output of small silver fractions suggests a local commercial infrastructure more developed than the region's remote geography might imply.