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cn coin 14305

Connected to Type

CN Type 2528 🔍

Mint
Abydos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 365-335 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΗΤΡΟΔΩΡΟΣ ΑΒΥ
Design
Eagle standing right on a tendril, wings closed. 
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Symbol
triskelion within circle (position: top right)
Persons

Magistrate: Metrodoros (I) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
15.01 g
Axis
11
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1887,0606.28

Provenience: Lambros 1887

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 891, c. 2,10, I.8

Citation

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 nr. 2450, pl. CLXVII, 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. 2, nr. 10, pl. I, pic. 8  ❐

Literature

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 nr. 2450, pl. CLXVII, 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. 2, nr. 10, pl. I, pic. 8 ❐

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cn coin 14305, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_14305 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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