obol: Greek denomination equal to one-sixth drachma.
obsolete bank note: Note of an American bank of issue prior to 1865; a more accurate term than "broken" bank note, ...
Gela, Sicily, AR Obol. 430-425 BC, GEL, forepart of man-headed bull right / Wheel of four spokes. Jenkins 190.
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Obol
A small silver (and occasionally a larger bronze) coin of ancient Greece; there were 12 chalkoi to an obol and 6 obols to a drachm.
Obol - A small ancient Greek silver coins (worth 1/6 of a drachma).
obol - the smallest Greek silver denonimation, six of which equal a drachm (q.v.).
obryzum - the technical term for pure gold in Greek and Latin.
obol A small silver coin of ancient Greece, originally a day's wages for a rower on a galley or a citizen on jury duty.
Yehud Obol
Bronze coin of Herod
After the revolt of Maccabeus, Jews struck their own bronze coins with religiously approved types.
Obol - A small Greek silver coin, valued at one-sixth of a drachm.
Its name is derived from obelos (a spit) just as drachm comes from drax (a handful [of spits]).
Obol, pl. obols
Silver Hellenic coin
Quinarius (argenteus), pl. quinarii (argentei) ...
Obol.
1 Cf. the archaic statue of the Amyclean Apollo as described by Paus. Lac. 19 εχει δε επι τη κεφαλη κρανος.
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Obol AR 10.5
Circ. B.C. 400-367. Rhodian Standard.
Head of Apollo, facing.
[Ibid., Pl. XVIII. 3.] ...
AE Obol, 19mm, c. 275-245 BC. No legend Head of young Pan left. PAN Legend right of Scythean bow and arrow. Anokhin Bosporus 133.
AE Obol, 13mm, c. 150-140 BC. No legend Head of Apollo right. PAN Legend left of bowcase. Anokhin Bosporus 169.
Silver obol of the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius. Extremely small (12 millimeters in diameter), but beautifully crafted.
Another obol, this from Kelenderis in Cilicia, dates to the mid 4th century BC. Using the goat with head turned back seen on larger coins of this city and abbreviating the city name makes identification easy.
Coin # 1:
Obol of the Archon Asander.
Coin with new variant of coupled coinages on both sides of the coin.
Coin # 5 :
Assarion of Aspurgus .
The reverse of the coin is realized as the mirror image.
*GF13 ---AR Half Obol (.26). Head of Satrap, looking left, wearing Persian tiara/Persian king walking right. SQ-4, SH-28 (Plate coin). VF $450 [image] ...
Kyzicos, Mysia, AR obol 480 - 450 BCE (0.71 gm)
Similar to above: K in field above lion.
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Gaul, Massalia, after 400 BC, AR Obol. Young male head left/M-A in wheel of 4 spokes, SG72. I have 9 of these as follows: A. Obv. centered slightly high losing top of head, rev.
1976, lots 677-879: representative runs of AR; obol of Shapur III.
XLIII 27-30 April 1981, lots 761-863: Base metal (AE and lead); fractional AR; representative runs of AR.
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The common division was the obol or obolo (1/2) (mealha in Portugal) and the multiple (4) was the gros in France, croat in Spain, the grosso in Italy, the groat in England, and the groschen in Germany, Bohemia and Poland.
Hill, originally published in 1924 but our copy is a 1979 reprint by Obol International.
The denominations in use at this time are listed below together with their relative values: some denominations do not occur in all standards, the fractions of the obol in particular only occurring at Athens.
 See also: Ancient, Coinage, Silver, Coin, Struck
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