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Obol
| Issuer | Psophis |
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| Year | 460 BC - 440 BC |
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| Weight | 0.94 g |
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| Reverse description | Within a recessed incuse square, a large fish swims transversely to the right in the upper register, its body rendered with schematic scale detail. Below and to the right, a smaller fish is depicted also swimming to the right, creating a hierarchical composition alluding to the aquatic resources of the Erymanthos river valley near Psophis. The incuse square border is well-defined, consistent with hammered coinage technique of the mid-fifth century BC. The field within the square is plain. |
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| Mintage | ND (460 BC - 440 BC) |
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Psophis was a remote Arcadian city in the northwestern Peloponnese, hemmed in by the Erymanthos river on two sides — isolated enough that its coinage circulated in a tightly constrained regional economy and survives today in very small numbers. The city's issues are among the least-documented in Arcadian numismatics, and BMC Greek #2 remains one of the primary reference points simply because so few systematic studies have followed.