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Obol
| Issuer | Psophis |
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| Year | 460 BC - 440 BC |
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| Value | 1 Obol =⅙ Drachm |
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| Reverse description | A fish swimming diagonally to right, depicted in low relief at the center of a recessed incuse square; the letters X and O flank the fish on either side, serving as abbreviations for the ethnic of Psophis; the incuse square is bordered by a series of radiating rays forming a decorative frame around the central design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Psophis was a small Arcadian city perched in the mountains at the confluence of the Aroanios and Erymanthos rivers — remote enough that its independent coinage output was minimal and its surviving types are genuinely rare. The BCD collection reference places this obol within a narrow typological group that specialists have long struggled to sequence with confidence, given how few die-linked specimens exist to anchor a reliable chronology.