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cn coin 14989

Connected to Type

CN Type 3176 🔍

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 ΑΒΥΔΗΝΩΝ // ΑΠΟΛΛΟΦΑ/ΝΟΥ
Design
Eagle standing right, wings spread; within laurel wreath.
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Symbol
palm branch (position: at the bottom right)
Persons

Magistrate: Apollophanes 🔍  

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

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 61.1039

Provenience: Ex Slg. Clarence S. Bement; Naville 8 (23-24.06.1924; Bement Collection), lot 1403 [as ex Maxime Collignon sale, Paris, 1919, lot 316]); ex R. Cyril Lockett Collection (SNG, Lockett, no. 2729); ex Glendining (21-23.02.1961; Lockett Collection), lot 2204; purchased at the Lockett auction by A. H. Baldwin and Sons, Ltd. (London); October 11, 1961: 61.1039–61.1067 purchased by MFA from A. H. Baldwin and Sons, Ltd. for a total price of £ 1099.

Reproduction Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [us] ❐

Citation

Comstock and Vermuele, Greek coins 1950 to 1963. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 1964 nr. 156, pic. 156  ❐

Callataÿ, Abydos sur Aesillas, Αθηνα 1996 p. 88  ❐

Robinson, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Volume III. The Lockett Collection. Part 4. Peloponnese-Aeolis., London 1946 nr. 2729, pl. XLVIII, pic. 2729  ❐

Naville & Cie, Catalogue of public auction VII (23-24.06.1924). Collection Clarence S. Bement de Philadelphia (U.S.A.). Monnaies grecques antiques en or et en argent. Seconde partie: Attique a Mauritanie VII, 1924 p. 30, nr. 1403, pl. 49, pic. 1403  ❐

Literature

Callataÿ and Heesch, Greek and Roman coins from the Du Chastel Collection: coin cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium, London 1999 p. 45, nr. 252, pl. 13, pic. 252 ❐

Bosch and Kraft, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Heft 5: Sammlung v. Aulock. Troas, Aeolis, Lesbos, 1439-1767, Berlin 1959 nr. 1454, pl. 45, pic. 1454 ❐

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. 52, pl. II, pic. 11 ❐

Sear, Greek Coins and their Values, London 1994 p. 372-373, nr. 4013 ❐

Robinson, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Volume III. The Lockett Collection. Part 4. Peloponnese-Aeolis., London 1946 nr. 2729, pl. XLVIII, pic. 2729 ❐

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