★ From the BCD collection.Ex NAC sale 55, 2010, 241 and Naville sale 43, 2018, 50. ★

Phocis, Federal coinage Triobol circa 449-447, AR 15.00 mm., 2.70 g.
Frontal bull's head, the hair in vertical lines. Rev. Archaic head of Artemis r. in incuse square, ?-[O-K-I] starting from bottom r., clockwise. Williams 213 (O.153 / R.17). BCD Phokis 241 (this coin).

An historically important coin. Old cabinet tone, Very Fine.

From the BCD collection.Ex NAC sale 55, 2010, 241 and Naville sale 43, 2018, 50.

An example of the charming anomalies that can occur in Greek coinages and which is so convincingly explained by Williams on pp. 32-33 of the corpus