Lexicographical Neighbors of Obols
Literary usage of Obols
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classical Studies in Honor of Charles Forster Smith: By His Colleagues by Charles Forster Smith (1919)
"21st: likewise for 21 workmen 126 obols 13 more younger workmen 65 obols and 15
boys 60 obols 23 more boys 80J^ obols 3 more boys 9 obols 9 more boys 22J^ ..."
2. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"HALF AND QUARTER obols OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.— Common as are all the larger
sizes of the silver coinage of Alexander the Great, it is well known that his ..."
3. Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus by Ptolemy, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, John Pentland Mahaffy (1896)
"3 obols which are in silver 1043 dr. 3 obols. It will be noticed that in line 6 the
... 3 obols in copper were therefore equivalent to 1043 dr. ..."
4. Catalogue of Greek Coins: Central Greece (Locris, Phocis, Boeotia and Euboea) by Barclay Vincent Head, Reginald Stuart Poole, British Museum Dept. of Coins and Medals (1884)
"The obols first issued in this period have on the reverse a star, which is thought by
... The obols with the star and OPON may be divided into two classes, ..."
5. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri by Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt (1898)
"But it was doubtful whether two kinds of obols, silver and copper, were meant,
and the name of the coin containing six instead of seven obols was unknown. ..."
6. The Constitutional Antiquities of Sparta and Athens by Gustav Gilbert (1895)
"Towards the end of the 4th century 3 obols a day were reckoned as the cost ...
1200 slaves, each of whom brings in 360 obols annually, can be increased in ..."
7. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1914)
"diem ; though afterwards, in his capacity of sole legislator, he himself, as he
says, assigned a drachma instead of three obols to each of the women. ..."
8. Domesday Studies: Being the Papers Read at the Meeting of the Domesday by Patrick Edward Dove (1891)
"50400 reduced obols of 8 reduced ... 57600 reduced obols of 7 reduced ...
256 reduced obols of 12 reduced ..."
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