cn coin 51646

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.

Reverse

Legend

ΠΕΡΓΑ(Μ)(Η)

Design

Statue of Athena with spear and shield on base.

Metrology

Denomination

Diobol 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

11.5 mm

Weight

1.39 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 84.750
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. 175 ❐

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 51646, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51646 [Last downloaded: 2023/03/28]

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