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Obol
| Issuer | Perrhaiboi |
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| Year | 462 BC - 460 BC |
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| Weight | 0.86 g |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a bull advancing to left, head reverted to right, rendered in bold relief with finely detailed musculature. A beaded border frames the design along the upper portion of the flan. The bull's curling forelock and prominent dewlap are clearly articulated, characteristic of the archaic Thessalian artistic tradition. The irregular flan displays a granular field typical of early hammered coinage from the region. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Perrhaiboi were a Thessalian people whose coins are among the more obscure issues of fifth-century northern Greece, minted during a period when Thessaly's political structure was fragmented between regional tribal authorities rather than consolidated under a single urban mint. BCD Thessaly I 1237 represents a tight chronological window — the two-year spread between 462 and 460 BC likely reflects numismatic inference from stylistic analysis rather than any documentary record of the issue.