Beschreibung
Erhaltung: ss | Abkürzungen
Katalognummer: The Perrhaiboi
Durchmesser: 12,00 mm
weight 0,83gr. | silver Ø 12mm.
obv. Bridled horse prancing to left, its rein trailing, border of dots
rev. Athena Itonia advancing right, half kneeling in fighting attitude,
wearing crested helmet and long robes, holding spear in her right hand
and shield in het left,E / PA in field, all within shallow incuse square
The Perrhaiboi were the inhabitants of the district of Perrhaibai, which is to the north of Thessaly proper and borders Macedonia. The coinage in the name of the Perrhaiboi was struck at Olosson and begins in the fifth century BC. Other Perrhaibian cities that struck were Gonnos and Phalanna.
BMC 6 | SNG.Copenhagen 195 | Boston MFA.916
Weber collection- (cf. 2889) | BCD.Thessaly II, 550
HGC 4, 152 | SNG.Ashmolean 3904 | cf. Sear 2171 R
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