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cn coin 14933

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CN Type 3171 🔍

Mint
Abydos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 100-65 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Diademed and draped bust of Artemis, right; bow and quiver over left shoulder.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΒΥ-ΔΗ-ΝΩΝ // ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΥ
Design
Eagle standing right, wings spread; within laurel wreath.
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Symbol
caps of Dioscuri / two pilei with stars (position: on the right)
Persons

Magistrate: Athenaios (Abydos) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
32 mm
Weight
16.06 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1852,0222.22

Provenience: Lords of the Treasury 1852

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 843, c. 6, 49

Citation

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 6, nr. 49  ❐

Callataÿ, Abydos sur Aesillas, Αθηνα 1996 p. 84, nr. D8/R1  ❐

Literature

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 6, nr. 49 ❐

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cn coin 14933, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_14933 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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