See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

Obol

Issuer Samos
Year 499 BC - 495 BC
Type Log in to see details
Value Log in to see details
Currency Drachm
Composition Log in to see details
Weight Log in to see details
Diameter Log in to see details
Thickness Log in to see details
Shape Log in to see details
Technique Log in to see details
Orientation Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Log in to see details
Obverse script Log in to see details
Obverse lettering Log in to see details
Reverse description Head of a bull turned to the left, depicted within a shallow incuse square, rendered in the archaic Greek manner with a dotted border visible along the upper edge of the incuse. The bovine head is shown in profile with characteristic features including a prominent eye, curving horn, and textured muzzle, consistent with the coinage of Samos during this early classical transitional period.
Reverse script Log in to see details
Reverse lettering Log in to see details
Edge Log in to see details
Mint Log in to see details
Mintage ND (499 BC - 495 BC)
Additional information

Samos in this period was navigating the turbulent aftermath of the Ionian Revolt, during which the island's fleet played a conspicuous — and ultimately treacherous — role at the Battle of Lade in 494 BC, when a large portion of the Samian contingent broke formation and sailed home. Small fractional silver like this would have passed through the hands of sailors, merchants, and soldiers operating out of one of the Aegean's most commercially active harbors during exactly that rupture.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE