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Obol
| Issuer | Koroneia (Boeotia) |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
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| Weight | 0.88 g |
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| Obverse description | Facing head of Athena rendered in archaic style, wearing a Boeotian helmet with raised cheek-guards and a prominent crest, presented frontally within a shallow incuse field. The helmet's bowl dominates the central design, with the cheek-pieces flanking the goddess's face on either side. The flan is slightly irregular, characteristic of hand-struck Boeotian small silver coinage of the early fourth century BC. The relief is bold and compact given the small module, with the design filling the available field. No legend appears on this side. |
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| Reverse script | Greek (retrograde) |
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Koroneia sat in the shadow of larger Boeotian powers but retained its own civic coinage well into the fourth century — a prerogative it exercised stubbornly even as Theban hegemony tightened across the region following Leuktra in 371 BC. The fractional silver series to which this obol belongs was struck for local market use, the denomination too small for inter-city settlement but essential for daily transactions at the agora. BCD Boiotia 174a places it within a tightly defined emission, distinguished by subtle die-axis and fabric variations from contemporary Theban and Haliartan issues.