Spokes (ca. 360 BC, Thracian dynast)
CN_6595

Mint

Abdera

Ruler

Spokes (ca. 360 BC, Thracian dynast)

Date

around 360 BC

Period

Classical

Denomination

Tetarte (drachm)

Standard

Legend

Obverse

ΒΑ // ΣΠΟΚΗΣ

Reverse

ΕΠΙ Ν-ΟΥΜΗ-ΝΙΟΥ

Design

Obverse

Griffin lying left, with feathered wings, tail under hindlegs and closed beak. Ground line.

Reverse

Laureate head of Apollo, right; within linear square.

Coinage

Type

ruler

Tribal Coinage

Odrysae

Persons

Authority

Spokes (ca. 360 BC, Thracian dynast)

Magistrate

Noumenios

Material

Silver

Diameter

15 mm

Weight

2.39 g

Axis

7

Owner

Münzkabinett, Berlin, DE

Owner Inventory No.

18245991

Provenience

1853/11967 - Vorbesitzer Rode

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige(no. 144, p. 118-119)Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung(p. 146-147)

Literature

Strack and Münzer, AMNG II-1. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos(p. 27-28, annot. 3)Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.)(p. 139-141, comm. 336-311 BC)

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Spokes (ca. 360 BC, Thracian dynast) CN_6595, in: Corpus Nummorum, http://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6595 [Last downloaded: 2019/08/25]

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