Obol

Knidos occupied a strategically awkward position on the southwestern tip of Anatolia, caught between Persian expansion and Greek commercial networks during precisely the decades this obol was struck. The city's early silver coinage belongs to a period when Knidos still operated as a significant trading hub before Persian administrative pressure reshaped its political arrangements after 494 BC.

The Cahn reference places this among the earliest Knidian issues, a series notorious for its short production window and corresponding scarcity in any condition.