Nomos 26

ARGOLIS. Troizen. Circa 431-400 BC. Tritartemorion or 3/4 Obol (Silver, 8 mm, 0.49 g, 12 h). Head of Athena to left, wearing a taenia and with her long hair falling down the back of her neck. Rev. ΤΡΟ Trident head upwards; all within an incuse square. BCD Peloponnesos 1335 (this coin). BMC 10-11 var. Cf. Traité II, 3, 695 and pl. CCXVIII, 3 (a later example, dating to the 360s). Extremely rare. Very well-centered and of fine style. Slightly rough surfaces, otherwise, extremely fine.

From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions and from the BCD Collection, LHS 96, 8 May 1996, 1335.

It should be noted that Troizen's silver coinage was, exceptionally for a Peloponnesian city, struck on the Attic standard. While earlier writers have termed later pieces of the same weight obols, this is quite impossible - thus, this piece is termed an 3/4 obol here. As BCD pointed out, however, the Attic 3/4 obol = an Aeginetic hemiobol, which would have made this coin most convenient for use in the Argolid.