Collection: Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Context: Phokikon?
Material: Silver
Denomination: Obol
Issuing Authority: Phocians
Actual Weight: 0.885
Die Axis: 120 degrees
Date: ca. 480 BC
Region: Phocis
Period: Late Arch./Early Clas.

Obverse Type: Boar protome, profile to the right, within incuse square.

Date Description:

ca. 480 BC? This obol appears to belong to Williams' Period 1 (which he dates ca. 510-478: see Williams 1972), and may have been part of the increased production of coinage at Phocis at the time of the Persian invasion.