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cn coin 8491

Connected to Type
CN Type 315 🔍
Mint
Selymbria 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 492/490-473/470 BC
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Cock standing left.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Σ-Α-/Λ-Υ
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, within Ethnic.
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
8 mm
Weight
0.43 g
Owner
Nomismatiko Mouseio, Athen, gr  
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: SEL_3L_49_043o/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. 47, nr. 50 
Oikonomos and Varoucha-Christodoulopoulos, Νομισματική Συλλογή Αναστασίου Σταμούλη, Athen 1955 nr. 411 
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 47, nr. 45-50, pl. 7 (ΣΑΛΥ?)   
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. 166, nr. 1636  
Cite this record:
cn coin 8491, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8491 [Last downloaded: 2024/12/06]
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