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tance, it probably enjoyed a few years of autonomy
between B.C. 387 and 374.
ORCHOMENUS.
| Obol or
Tritemorion.
Obol.
Obol.
Obol.
J Obol 01
Tetartemorion.
E P. Three sprouting FreeJiorse.
grains of corn.
[Brit. Mus. PI. IV. 10.]
Similar, beneath, ER. Wheel of
[Num. Zeit. iii. Taf. ix. 8.]
spokes.
four
Similar. Wreath composed of
two ears of corn.
[Num. Zeit. iii. Taf. ix. 9.]
Half -
sprouting corngrain
in field, sometimes
ivy-leaf.
[Brit. Mus. PL IV. 11.]
E R. Sprouting grain
of corn.
[Brit. Mus. PL IV. 12.]
E R. Ear of corn.
E R. Ear of corn.
Many slight varieties of the above coins are known with
the letters 3, 9 3, ER, EP, and in one instance Op, on
one or both sides. These small coins of Orchomenus
probably extend over the whole period between B.C. 395,
when Orchomenus revolted from the League and joined
the Spartans, and 364, the year of its destruction.
The following larger coins, having on the obverse the
Boeotian shield, belong to the latter part of the same
period, the stater with the amphora being closely copied
from the new Federal coinage first issued at Thebes about
B.C. 3798 (see below, p. 237. PI. V. 15).
Stater.
183-2 grs.
Boeotian shield. EPX. Free horse galloping r.,
above, YAOPO and ear of
corn.
[Brit. Mus.; Millingen, Anc. Coins, PI. IV. 6. PL IV. 5.]