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Triobol
| Issuer | Neapolis (Campania) |
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| Year | 300 BC - 275 BC |
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| Weight | 1.53 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A cockerel standing right, rendered in high relief with carefully engraved plumage, prominent comb, wattle, and tail feathers clearly delineated. A small six-pointed star or asterisk symbol appears in the upper left field, serving as a control mark. The ethnic legend ΝΕΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ is associated with the issue, and the plain field surrounding the bird emphasizes the quality of the die engraving. The cockerel was a common civic emblem in Campanian Greek coinage, associated with vigilance and solar symbolism. |
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Neapolis — modern Naples — occupied an unusual position in the late fourth and early third centuries BC, nominally allied with Rome yet maintaining its own Greek civic identity and coinage traditions long after most Campanian mints had been absorbed or suppressed. This triobol belongs to a period of intense pressure: the Samnite Wars had reshaped the region's political allegiances for decades, and the Social War loomed further ahead. That Neapolis continued striking silver fractions in the Greek tradition through this turbulent stretch says something about the tenacity of its merchant class and the city's continued commercial ties to the Greek world.