cn coin 55172

Connected to Type

CN Type 2578 🔍

Mint

Abydos 🔍 ❐
Region: Troas ❐

Date

c. 350-325 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΒΥ ΛΥΣΑΣ

Design

Eagle standing left, wings closed.
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Symbol

Tripod (position: at the bottom left)

Persons

Magistrate

Lysas 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Hemisiglos 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

13 mm

Weight

2.61 g

Axis

3

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 1889,0604.2
Provenience: Chester 1889

Citation

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 3, nr. 20  ❐

Literature

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 11, pl. 1, pic. 11  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins. 3: Asia Minor, farther Asia, Egypt, Africa, Cambridge 1929 p. 74, nr. 7754, pl. 268, pic. 3  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 nr. 2463, pl. CLXVIII, pic. 17  ❐

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 p. 211, nr. 1619, pl. 79, pic. 1619  ❐

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