OBOL Coins
Obolo Coin: Italian Medieval Fractional Currency
Illustrated Specimen Details: Asti Obolo Example Specimen: Obolo, 15th century — City of Asti (Italy) Design & Inscriptions: This extremely rare hammered copper coin originates from Asti, a city and municipality in the Pied…
Obulus Coin: 1/2 Denar of the Duchy of Teschen (Silesia)
Illustrated Specimen Details: Obulus (Teschen) Example Specimen: Obulus, 1653 — Duchy of Teschen (Silesia) Monarch and Authority: This coin was struck during the reign of Ferdinand IV Habsburg , who held the titles of King of B…
Obole: The Half-Denier Coin of Medieval France
Illustrated Specimen Details: Obole Example Specimen: County of Melgueil (c. 1080-1120) The specimen shown here is a silver obole from the County of Melgueil in Southern France. This region, a significant medieval fief, issued …
Obol Coin: Ancient Greek Specimen, History & Charon
Illustrated Specimen Details: Ancient Greek Obol Example Specimen: Obol, 324-323 BC — City of Laranda (Lycaonia, Ancient Greece) This silver obol was struck in Laranda (modern-day Karaman, Turkey), a strategic city in Lycaonia. …
Hemiobol: coin of Cyzicus (Mysia, Ancient Greece)
HEMIOBOL: COIN OF CYZICUS (KYZIKOS) Hemiobol, 480-400 BC: Cyzicus (Ancient Greece) Cyzicus (also Kyzikos) — an ancient Greek town in Mysia in Anatolia in the current Balıkesir Province of Türkiye. Protome (a type of adornment that takes the form of…