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cn coin 14290

Connected to Type

CN Type 2503 🔍

Mint
Abydos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 480-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒΥΔΗΝΟΝ
Design
Eagle standing left, wings closed.
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Reverse
Design
Gorgoneion within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 17 mm / Min: 16 mm
Weight
5.24 g
Axis
6
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1853,0716.183

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 914, c. 1,2; I.2

Public Commentary

Diameter after plaster cast

Citation

Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek coins, New York 1976 pl. 53, pic. 909  ❐

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

Literature

Baldus, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Deutschland. Staatliche Münzsammlung München. 19.Heft. Troas - Lesbos. Nr. 1-813 19, München 1991 nr. 3, pl. 1, pic. 3 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 nr. 2441, pl. CLXVII, pic. 30 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 3, pl. 1, pic. 3 ❐

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

Waggoner, Early Greek coins from the collection of Jonathan P. Rosen, New York 1983 nr. 527, pl. 20, pic. 527 ❐

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cn coin 14290, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_14290 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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