cn coin 12285

Connected to Type

CN Type 5135 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Seuthes III. (Hellenistic king)  

Tribe: Odrysae  

Date

330-295 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of bearded Seuthes III (or Zeus), right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΕΥΘΟΥ
Design
Horseman on horse galopping right.
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Symbol
wreath (position: below)
Persons

Authority: Seuthes III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
middle denomination (Bronze) 🔍
Material
Weight
6.91 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr

Owner Inventory No.: 1966.453

Provenience: Jean et Marie Delepierre 4249

Public Commentary

Avers-Ikonographie in der Literatur teilweise auch als Kopf des Zeus interpretiert. Position des Beizeichens variabel.

Literature

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 184, nr. 7

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 184, nr. 7

Peykov, Catalogue of the Coins from Thrace. Part I: Tribal and Rulers' Coinages of Thracians, Paeonians, Celts and Scythians 5th c. B.C. - 1st c. A.D., Veliko Tărnovo 2011 p. 67, nr. B0810 (Head of Zeus.) 

Topalov, Urban bronze coins of small denomination from the Propontis area with images of a conical vessel with two handles, dynastic symbol of the coinage of the early Odrysian kings of the 5th-4th centuries B.C.; Genealogy of the Odrysian Dynasty from the end of the 6th to the 3rd quarter of 4th century B.C.; Catalogue of early Thracian tribal coins of 6th-5th century B.C., anepigraphic types of coins minted on the territory of the early Odrysian Kingdom and early Odrysian regal coins of 5th-4th century B.C., Sofia 2005 p. 87, nr. 122 (Head of Zeus.) 

p. 76-77, nr. 68-74

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cn coin 12285, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12285 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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