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The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

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BCEOTIA. PERIOD II. CIRC. B.C. 550 480. 195<br />

realities, which may have served <strong>the</strong> useful purpose <strong>of</strong><br />

recalling to <strong>the</strong> minds <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people <strong>the</strong> memory <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

ancient prestige.<br />

<strong>The</strong> following are some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> principal varieties <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

coinage <strong>of</strong> Orchomenus which appear, on account <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

globular fabric, to<br />

<strong>the</strong> fifth centuries.<br />

belong to <strong>the</strong> sixth <strong>and</strong> earlier part <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong> thinner <strong>and</strong> flatter coins <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> next half-century<br />

will be described in <strong>the</strong> next Period.<br />

OboL<br />

16-5 grs.<br />

Sprouting corn-grain on<br />

one side <strong>of</strong> which 5 .<br />

[Brit. Mus. PL I. 9.]<br />

Incuse square divided into<br />

eight triangular compartments<br />

as on <strong>the</strong> earliest<br />

coins <strong>of</strong> Aegina.<br />

<strong>The</strong> reverses <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se obols are not always identical, <strong>the</strong><br />

most frequent variety has three <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> triangles in relief<br />

<strong>and</strong> five incuse.<br />

Hemi-oboL

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