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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;romismatist, post: 8230920, member: 44106&quot;]The Ae coins of Brundisium clearly had an &quot;S&quot; on the obverse (below the head of Neptune) and reverse (behind Phalanthos riding the dolphin) denoting their denomination as a semis. These were issued as early as 209-200 BC. </p><p><br /></p><p>The initial series from Brundisium dating to 215 BC had pellets denoting value - one pellet for an uncia, two for a biuncia, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1446990[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>However, pellets were commonly used well before this date like [USER=86498]@Terence Cheesman[/USER] suggests (maybe up to 150-200 years prior) in Magna Grecia (Southern Italy and especially Sicily). There is a great site <a href="http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/" rel="nofollow">http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/</a> where you can view coinage of Magna Grecia by polis and time period. </p><p><br /></p><p>Metapontum in particular had a bronze coin it issued from 425-350 BC with the inscription &quot;OBOLOS&quot; clearly on the reverse, denoting an obol denomination (not my coin, although I do have an example):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1446994[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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