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cn coin 8250

Connected to Type
CN Type 301 🔍
Mint
Selymbria 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 492/490-473/470 BC
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Sel_0007_V2 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΣΑ
Design
Cock standing left.
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Reverse
Die
Sel_0007_R7 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Octobol 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
Max: 15 mm / Min: 14 mm
Weight
4.33 g
Owner
Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk  
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: SEL_3L_49_006o/r
Public Commentary
Die Gewichte der Prägung von Selymbria lassen sich auch mit dem attischen und teilweise einem reduziert persischen Münzfuß in Einklang bringen.
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 45, nr. 7, pl. 7 
Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 p. 16, nr. 789 
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 45, nr. 1-15, pl. 7 (Thraco-macedon standard.)   
Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 165, nr. 1628  
Cite this record:
cn coin 8250, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8250 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/17]
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