Obol

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.