4th century BCE
AE 14.81mm 2.81g
Obverse: Head of Persephone left
Reverse: Î A monogram
Attribution: SNG Copenhagen 465
Ex E. Boudeau, Paris prior to 1912
This is currently my only coin from Kefalonia, although I hope that text goes out of date soon. 😊 Pale was one of the four main cities on the island, which in those days had a far larger population than it does today. By some estimates, just the city of Same had more people than the entire island does today, and its extensive ruins give some credence to that.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have the chance to get over to Pale while I was in Kefalonia. I did visit Same and I got lost trying to find Kranion. Pale was in a peninsula that was far from our hotel.
4th century BCE
Æ 14mm, 2.97 g, 12h
Barley grain within large Î /
Dolphin right above waves
SNG Copenhagen 467–8; HGC 6, 177
There are some theories that the peninsula where Pale resides was the actual home of Odysseus. The trees mentioned in The Odyssey match more closely that of Kefalonia, and recent studies have suggested that water separated Pale and the peninsula from the rest of the island during the time of the Trojan War. Homer also mentioned that Ithaca was reachable by foot, which would have been the case then for Pale but was not for Ithaca itself.