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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 8204720, member: 82322&quot;]I found pictures <a href="http://moneyingreece.org/how-we-learned-about-the-iron-obols" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://moneyingreece.org/how-we-learned-about-the-iron-obols" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438191[/ATTACH] </p><p>Photo from Svoronos, <i>Lessons in Numismatics</i>, Journal International d&#039;&#039;Archéologie Numismatique (1906)</p><p><br /></p><p>A cautionary tale:</p><p>&quot;Unfortunately, although Ch. Waldstein immediately recognized the importance of his discovery, after being transferred to Athens, this band of spits was considered insignificant and, without even being recorded in the books of the National Archaeological Museum, was destroyed. Most of the obols were crushed to small pieces and thrown in the basements of the Museum, where the humidity, freely operating for twelve years, exacerbated the destruction. Fortunately, one of my former students in the lessons of primitive coins, curator of antiquities Mr. K. Kourouniotis, remembered that iron obols were once transferred from the Heraeum to Athens. With his help, and with that of the current director of the National Archaeological Museum, Mr. V. Stais, we discovered them in the basements of the museum....&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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