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Triobol
| Issuer | Neapolis (Campania) |
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| Year | 300 BC - 275 BC |
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| Diameter | 13 mm |
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| Obverse description | Head of Apollo facing right, youthful and finely rendered in the South Italian Greek style, crowned with a laurel wreath whose leaves are depicted with considerable detail. The hair falls in loose, wavy locks about the neck and temples. The portrait exhibits a serene, idealized expression characteristic of late fourth- to early third-century BC Campanian coinage. The partial legend ΝΕΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ appears in the field around the periphery. |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 275 BC) |
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Neapolis — modern Naples — was a Greek foundation that maintained its Hellenic monetary traditions deep into the period of Roman expansion across Campania. This triobol belongs to a phase when the city was navigating an increasingly uncomfortable position between Rome and the Samnite confederacy, having shifted its alliance to Rome following the Latin War of 338 BC. The small silver fractions served the dense commercial activity of one of the busiest ports on the Tyrrhenian coast.
By the early third century, Neapolitan silver was being progressively eclipsed by Roman monetary expansion, making this among the last generations of independent civic coinage from the mint.