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cn coin 8540

Connected to Type
CN Type 321 🔍
Mint
Selymbria 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 425/420-411/410 BC
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Cock standing left.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΣΑ-ΛΥ
Design
Ear of corn.
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
9 mm
Weight
0.7 g
Owner
Nomismatiko Mouseio, Athen, gr  
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: SEL_3L_49_058o/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. 48, nr. 67 
Oikonomos and Varoucha-Christodoulopoulos, Νομισματική Συλλογή Αναστασίου Σταμούλη, Athen 1955 nr. 415 
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 48, nr. 66-68  
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. 167, nr. 1638  
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cn coin 8540, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8540 [Last downloaded: 2024/10/07]
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