cn coin 20084

Connected to Type

CN Type 4390 🔍

Tribe/ethne  ❐

Tribe: Orrescii ❐

Date

513-460 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΟΡΡΕΣΚΙΩΝ

Design

Herdsman (Hermes?) standing right with petasus and double spear pointing forwards, leading two oxen right.
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Symbol

lotus flower (position: on the right)

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Metrology

Denomination

Tristater (Octadrachm) 🔍

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 31 mm / Min: 29 mm

Weight

28.26 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: Boston (Perkins) Orresk. 93

Public Commentary

Verschiedene Legendenschreibweisen möglich: Neben ΟΡΡΗΣΚΙΩΝ und ΟΡΗΣΚΙΩΝ gibt es auch ΟΡΡEΣΚΙOΝ sowie ΟΡΡEΣΚΙΩΝ.

Literature

Peykov, Catalogue of the Coins from Thrace. Part I: Tribal and Rulers' Coinages of Thracians, Paeonians, Celts and Scythians 5th c. B.C. - 1st c. A.D., Veliko Tărnovo 2011 p. 14, nr. A0550  ❐

Delev, A History of the Tribes of South-western Thrace in the First Millenium B.C., Sofia 2014 p. 387  ❐

Topalov, Urban bronze coins of small denomination from the Propontis area with images of a conical vessel with two handles, dynastic symbol of the coinage of the early Odrysian kings of the 5th-4th centuries B.C.; Genealogy of the Odrysian Dynasty from the end of the 6th to the 3rd quarter of 4th century B.C.; Catalogue of early Thracian tribal coins of 6th-5th century B.C., anepigraphic types of coins minted on the territory of the early Odrysian Kingdom and early Odrysian regal coins of 5th-4th century B.C., Sofia 2005 p. 55, nr. 15  ❐

Peykov, Catalogue of the Coins from Thrace. Part I: Tribal and Rulers' Coinages of Thracians, Paeonians, Celts and Scythians 5th c. B.C. - 1st c. A.D., Veliko Tărnovo 2011 p. 14, nr. A0550  ❐

Delev, A History of the Tribes of South-western Thrace in the First Millenium B.C., Sofia 2014 p. 387  ❐

Gaebler, Fälschung makedonischer Münzen, Berlin 1931 p. 14, nr. 23, pl. 2, pic. 8-10  ❐

Topalov, Urban bronze coins of small denomination from the Propontis area with images of a conical vessel with two handles, dynastic symbol of the coinage of the early Odrysian kings of the 5th-4th centuries B.C.; Genealogy of the Odrysian Dynasty from the end of the 6th to the 3rd quarter of 4th century B.C.; Catalogue of early Thracian tribal coins of 6th-5th century B.C., anepigraphic types of coins minted on the territory of the early Odrysian Kingdom and early Odrysian regal coins of 5th-4th century B.C., Sofia 2005 p. 55, nr. 15  ❐

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cn coin 20084, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20084 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/23]

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