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cn coin 55979

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CN Type 5151 🔍
Ruler  
Ruler: Seuthes III. (Hellenistic king)
Tribe: Odrysae
Date
330-295 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Star with eight rays.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΕΥΘΟΥ
Design
Horizontal thunderbolt.
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Persons
Authority
Seuthes III. 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze  🔍
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
0.92 g
Owner
commerce / im Handel, ,
Provenience: Savoca 24 (21.09.2019) 116
Literature
Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 181, nr. 1  
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. 85, nr. 114  
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. 69, nr. B0860  
Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 p. 80, nr. 98  
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cn coin 55979, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_55979 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/21]
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