Lexicographical Neighbors of Diobol
Literary usage of Diobol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Numismatic Circularby Spink & Son by Spink & Son (1908)
"Ж. diobol. Similar type with lion's head to r. VF » 4 • PHOCAEA EF 6 15 • (Fifth
and fourth Ct-nturies BC). Electrum hecta. Obv. Head of youthful Pan to 1. ..."
2. The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1881)
"The diobol also occurs in the ... of Aristophanes—"And the only thing I had left
in my mouth, a diobol, ..."
3. A Handbook of Greek and Roman Coins by Sir George Francis Hill (1899)
"Finally, the obol is marked • «««•; the diobol therefore was equivalent to ten
units, ... From these facts it would appear that the nummus was the diobol. ..."
4. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1895)
"A diobol of the same type is known (Paris, P1. XI. ... and diobol with the type
of the obverse to the left. One is perhaps struck on an example of No. 1. ..."
5. The Types of Greek Coins: An Archaeological Essay by Percy Gardner (1883)
"Thus it is easy at a glance to see what denomination we have to do with. So again
in Thessaly a horseman marks the diobol, a single horse the oboi. ..."
6. A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Based on Sir William by Francis Warre Cornish (1898)
"The diobol was called both at Rome and in S. Italy Humus (Gr. ... The weight in
grains (approximately) is as follows : libella 1-76 ; diobol 17-5 ..."
7. The Uses of Symbolism in Greek Art by Janet M. Macdonald (1922)
"Again in Thessaly a horseman marks the diobol, a horse the ... At Corinth the
diobol bears a Pegasus on both obverse and reverse, ..."
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