Olophyxos was one of the three surviving Greek cities on the Athos peninsula following the Persian destruction of 492 BC, when Mardonius's fleet razed several settlements while rounding the promontory. The city remained small and obscure throughout its existence, which is precisely why its bronze coinage is so rarely encountered — this was a community of modest means striking for purely local exchange.
The SNG ANS reference ties this piece to a tight cluster of specimens, most of which surfaced from the same regional collecting tradition in the early twentieth century.
Olophyxos was one of the three surviving Greek cities on the Athos peninsula following the Persian destruction of 492 BC, when Mardonius's fleet razed several settlements while rounding the promontory. The city remained small and obscure throughout its existence, which is precisely why its bronze coinage is so rarely encountered — this was a community of modest means striking for purely local exchange.
The SNG ANS reference ties this piece to a tight cluster of specimens, most of which surfaced from the same regional collecting tradition in the early twentieth century.