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Obol
| Issuer | Koroneia (Boeotia) |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
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| Value | Obol (⅙) |
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| Reverse description | Head of Athena facing slightly to the left, rendered in three-quarter view with wavy, serpentine locks of hair radiating outward around her face. The facial features are rendered with archaic stylistic conventions, including almond-shaped eyes and a broad nose. No helmet is visible, and the field is plain and uninscribed, consistent with the small module and limited flan of this denomination. |
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| Mint | Koroneia |
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Koroneia sat at the western edge of the Boeotian plain and, unlike Thebes, maintained its own autonomous coinage well into the fourth century despite operating firmly within Boeotian political orbit. The federal coinage question was never cleanly resolved in this region — member poleis periodically issued their own fractional silver alongside or instead of league emissions, often in response to local mercantile demand rather than any federal directive.
BCD Boiotia 172 places this obol within a series now reconstructed almost entirely from the extraordinary collection assembled by the collector known as BCD, whose Boeotian material remains the definitive reference for regional fractions of this type.