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Psophis was a small Arcadian city tucked into the northwestern corner of the region, hemmed in by the Erymanthos river and largely cut off from major trade routes. Its coinage output was minimal and short-lived, which is why BCD Peloponnesos 1675 draws attention from specialists in Greek regional issues — the city simply did not mint much. The BCD collection itself, assembled by a single anonymous European collector over decades, remains the defining reference for Peloponnesian bronzes and silvers precisely because so many of these minor Arcadian types had never been systematically catalogued before its 2009 auction.