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cn coin 51643

Connected to Type
CN Type 10946 🔍
Mint
Pergamon 🔍
Region: Mysia
Date
336-323/320 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Legend
ΠΕΡΓΑ(Μ)(Η)
Design
Statue of Athena with spear and shield on base.
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Metrology
Denomination
Diobol 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
11.5 mm
Weight
1.4 g
Owner
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  
Owner Inventory No.: 84.747
Provenience: Acquired in the division of coins following the excavations at Assos. Some coins in the group were said to have been "purchased from natives of the surrounding district." No specific findspot is known for this coin. 1884: gift of the Archaeological Institute of America to the Museum of Fine Arts
Citation
Bell, Coins from Assos, London-Cambridge, MA-Leipzig 1902 p. 307, nr. 172 
Literature
Marcellesi, Pergame: de la fin du Ve au début du Ier siècle avant J.-C.: pratiques monétaires et histoire, Pisa 2012 p. 175, nr. 7  
Fritze, Zur Chronologie der autonomen Prägung von Pergamon, Berlin p. 50  
Fritze, Die Münzen von Pergamon, Berlin 1910 p. 5  
Six, Monnaies grecques, inédites et incertaines 10, 1890 p. 201, nr. 6  
Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1559-1562. 1564-1566  
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cn coin 51643, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51643 [Last downloaded: 2024/12/03]
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