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cn coin 15472

Connected to Type

CN Type 3532 🔍

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 // ΠΑΡΜЄΝΙϹΚΟΥ
Design
Eagle standing right, wings spread; within laurel wreath.
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Symbol
corn-ear (position: at the bottom right) grape with tendril and leaf (position: at the bottom right)
Persons

Magistrate: Parmeniskos 🔍  

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

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 61.1040

Provenience: ex Clarence S. Bement Collection; Naville auction 8 [Clarence S. Bement Collection], Lucerne, June 23-24, 1924, lot 1401; R. Cyril Lockett Collection (SNG, Lockett, no. 2730); by 1961: with Glendining & Co., Ltd., London (auction of the Lockett Collection, February 21-23, 1961, lot 2205); purchased at the Lockett auction by A. H. Baldwin and Sons, Ltd.; 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. 157, pic. 157  ❐

Naville, Sammlung C. S. Bement/Philadelphia USA 6, Genua 1923 nr. 1401  ❐

Robinson, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Volume III. The Lockett Collection. Part 4. Peloponnese-Aeolis., London 1946 nr. 2730, pic. 2730  ❐

Literature

Comstock and Vermuele, Greek coins 1950 to 1963. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 1964 nr. 157, pic. 157 ❐

Naville, Sammlung C. S. Bement/Philadelphia USA 6, Genua 1923 nr. 1401 ❐

Robinson, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Volume III. The Lockett Collection. Part 4. Peloponnese-Aeolis., London 1946 nr. 2730, pic. 2730 ❐

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