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cn coin 14238

Connected to Type

CN Type 2424 🔍

Mint
Abydos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

early 4. c. BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Nike kneeling left on ram, about to sacrifice animal with sword in right hand.
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Reverse
Design
Eagle standing right on a tendril, wings closed. 
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Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
gold 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 17 mm / Min: 16 mm
Weight
8.36 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: RPK, p105A.1.Aby

Provenience: Richard Payne Knight

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 918, c. 2,9, I.7

Public Commentary

Diameter after plaster cast

Citation

Knight, Nummi veteres civitatum, regum, gentium, et provinciarum, Londini in Museo, Londinum 1830 p. 105, nr. A.1  ❐

Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek coins, New York 1976 pl. 53, pic. 910  ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 2, nr. 9, pl. 1, pic. 7  ❐

Literature

Knight, Nummi veteres civitatum, regum, gentium, et provinciarum, Londini in Museo, Londinum 1830 p. 105, nr. A.1 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 2, nr. 9, pl. 1, pic. 7 ❐

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cn coin 14238, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_14238 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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