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Triobol
| Issuer | Argos (Argolis) |
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| Year | 330 BC - 270 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered, Incuse |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (330 BC - 270 BC) |
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Argos maintained its own autonomous silver coinage well into the Hellenistic period despite Macedonian hegemony reshaping most of the Peloponnese after Chaeronea in 338 BC. The city had been minting fractional silver on the Aeginetan weight standard for centuries, and the triobol — half an obol short of a drachm — was the practical workhorse denomination for local market transactions, not interstate trade.
Dies for Argive fractionals of this period show considerable variety, and specimens attributable to the later end of this range reflect the city's gradual absorption into the political orbit of the Antigonid-backed Achaean alliances forming across the northern Peloponnese.