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cn coin 8545

Connected to Type
CN Type 322 🔍
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
Grain.
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
10 mm
Weight
0.76 g
Owner
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  
Owner Inventory No.: 04 643
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: SEL_3L_49_063o/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. 49, nr. 71.2 
Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 nr. 498 
Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 pl. 44, pic. 820 
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 49, nr. 69-73, pl. 8  
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. 1639  
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cn coin 8545, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8545 [Last downloaded: 2024/09/18]
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