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Obol
| Issuer | Stymphalos |
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| Year | 350 BC |
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| Diameter | 11.0 mm |
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| Reverse description | A stymphalian water bird — likely a heron or crane, the mythological symbol of Stymphalos — depicted standing in right profile, its long neck and pointed bill clearly articulated. The body is rendered with careful attention to plumage detail, the legs shown beneath a compact torso. The ethnic inscription ΣΤΥΜΦΑΛΙΩΝ is disposed in the field around the type, partially to the left and partially to the right of the bird, with a small symbol visible in the lower field. The composition alludes directly to the Sixth Labour of Herakles, in which he drove away the Stymphalian birds. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΣΤΥΜΦΑΛΙΩΝ |
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Stymphalos was a minor Arcadian city best known in antiquity for its lake and the myth of the man-eating birds driven out by Heracles — but its civic coinage is notable for more mundane reasons. The city struck independently before the consolidation of Arcadian federal coinage under the Arcadian League, and these small silver issues represent one of the few attestations of autonomous Stymphalian monetary output.
The BCD Peloponnesos reference places this piece within the landmark collection assembled by a single dedicated collector whose holdings of Peloponnesian bronzes and silvers remain the defining reference corpus for the region.