cn coin 8257

Connected to Type

CN Type 304 🔍

Mint

Selymbria 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 492/490-473/470 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Sel_0020_V1 🔍

Legend

ΣΑ

Design

Cock standing left.
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Reverse

Die

Sel_0020_R2 🔍

Design

Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology

Denomination

Tetrobol 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

12 mm

Weight

2.05 g

Owner

Nomismatiko Mouseio, Athen, gr  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: SEL_3L_49_013o/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. 45-46, nr. 20  ❐

Oikonomos and Varoucha-Christodoulopoulos, Νομισματική Συλλογή Αναστασίου Σταμούλη, Athen 1955 nr. 394  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 45 f., nr. 19-22, pl. 7  ❐

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. 1630  ❐

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cn coin 8257, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8257 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/12]

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