cn coin 51991

Connected to Type

CN Type 5148 🔍

Ruler  ❐

Ruler: Seuthes III. (Hellenistic king) ❐
Tribe: Odrysae ❐

Date

c. 330-295 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Eagle standing right, wings closed. 

Reverse

Legend

ΣΕΥΘΟΥ

Design

Ruler's name within wreath of corn ears.

Persons

Authority

Seuthes III. 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

small denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Weight

3.17 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung Auktion 118, lot 1192

Literature

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 181, nr. 2 ❐

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. 87, nr. 123 ❐

Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 nr. 95-97 ❐

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. 68, nr. B0840 ❐

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