Lexicographical Neighbors of Diobols
Literary usage of Diobols
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"20 and 21 (Bartholomaei) are diobols. Specimens of this denomination are exceedingly
rare. In another learned metrological excursus Markoff undertakes to ..."
2. Catalogue of the Coins of Parthia by British Museum Dept. of Coins and Medals, Warwick William Wroth (1903)
"diobols. Sizes -5—'45 Bust of Orodes 1 1. ; close beard ; wart on forehead ;
wears diadem, spiral necklace with globular termination, and cuirass; in front, ..."
3. The Numismatic Circularby Spink & Son by Spink & Son (1908)
"150 Obols, or Twelfths weighing u grains j 82 diobols, or Sixths — 2i I = 1729 grs.
... of the Sixths or diobols were accepted for the other two systems. ..."
4. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"... still extant with the head of Athene on one side, aud an owl with two bodies
and one head on the other, which resemble the silver diobols of Athens. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... and diobols with the name of Alexander and types: head of Zeus and eagle,
probably belong to the end of the 4th century. But the coinage which was to ..."
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