Obol

Larissa, the dominant city of the Thessalian plain, controlled some of the most productive agricultural land in Greece and leveraged that wealth into a robust civic coinage by the late fifth century. The obol denomination served the granular end of daily commerce — market transactions, ferry tolls, minor temple offerings — in a region where the larger silver issues handled interstate trade. Thessaly's federal coinage structure was loose enough that Larissa struck independently, and the city's issues from this period predate the reforms that later standardized Thessalian denominational output under the League.