★ From the duplicates of the BCD collection ★

Locri Opuntii, Lokris Opunti Obol third quarter of the V cent, AR 9.90 mm., 0.87 g.
Amphora. Rev. O in one rectangular compartment of a “flag type” Aiginetan incuse. Corpus group 1, 1c. Babelon, Traité II, 3, p. 361, 423 - 424, pl. CCVI, 11 bis, corr. BCD Lokris-Phocis 1.

Very rare, nice old cabinet tone, Very Fine

From the duplicates of the BCD collection. Sold with collector's ticket.

Babelon wrongly calls his no. 423 a trihemiobol. He was led astray by the mistake in the recording of the weight, but he should have also realized that an obol and a trihemiobol could not possibly have exactly the same types. The coin resides in the Fonds Generales of the Paris collection under the serial number 101 and has recently been re-weighed by a good friend who was visiting Paris. It actually weighs 0.59 g. and not 1.59 g. See also Imhoof-Blumer in NC 1895, p. 270, 3 and pl. X, 2 for the whereabouts of the five such obols known to him at the time as well as the photo of the one in his collection.