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Obol

Issuer Kierion
Year 350 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse description Horse prancing to right within a shallow incuse circle, rendered in bold relief in the Thessalian artistic tradition. The animal is depicted with musculature carefully articulated, with the foreleg raised and tail extended, conveying dynamic movement. The field is plain, with no legend or additional devices.
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Edge Plain
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Kierion was a minor Thessalian polis in the Histiaeotis region, and its independent coinage output was limited — this obol belongs to a series produced before the Macedonian consolidation of Thessaly under Philip II effectively ended autonomous civic minting across much of the region. The BCD collection references here draw from two separate sales, suggesting the type circulated or survived in small but consistent numbers.

The SNG Copenhagen concordance places this among a tight group of Thessalian fractional issues rarely encountered outside specialist collections.

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