Extremely Rare Peirasia Trihemiobol

235, Lot: 111. Estimate $150. Sold for $310. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Peirasia. Circa 350-300 BC. AR Trihemiobol (14mm, 0.88 g, 12h). Head of Athena facing slightly left, wearing triple-crested Corinthian helmet / Horseman cantering right, thrusting spear. E.J. Pendleton, “The coinage of Peirasia,” SNR 87, T2 (O2/R2). Good Fine, a bit porous. Extremely rare.

In Elizabeth Pendleton’s recent study, the first to comprehensively treat the coinage of Peirasia, only a dozen trihemiobols are cited from only two sets of dies. This cataloguer has never handled a Peirasian coin previously, and a search in coinarchives.com yielded no results. This is a rare opportunity to acquire part of the city’s coinage which, as Pendleton writes, “is obscure almost to the point of invisibility.”