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Obol
| Issuer | Perrhaiboi |
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| Year | 450 BC - 430 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Athena Itonia advancing rapidly to right in the warrior goddess pose, wearing helmet and aegis, brandishing a spear in her raised right hand and holding a round shield on her left arm. The figure is rendered in the running-Athena type characteristic of Thessalian coinage of this period. The design is contained within a shallow incuse square, with the ethnic legend ΠΕΡΑ distributed in the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | Π Ε Ρ Α |
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The Perrhaiboi were a Thessalian people whose coinage was struck not by a single city but by a loose tribal federation — an arrangement unusual enough in the Greek world that their issues have long puzzled attributors. The obols in this series are among the smallest denomination struck by any Thessalian group, and the BCD collection reference places this specimen within a tightly clustered chronological group tied to the mid-fifth century, when Perrhaibian autonomy was periodically squeezed by Macedonian pressure from the north and Thessalian dynastic ambitions from the south.