cn coin 20080
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cn coin 20080

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CN Type 4388 🔍

Coinage
 

Tribe: Orrescii  

Date

513-460 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΟΡΡ(Η,Ε)ΣΚΙΩΝ
Design
Herdsman (Hermes?) facing right with petasus and two spears pointing upwards, leading two oxen.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Metrology
Denomination
Tristater (Octadrachm) 🔍
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
Diameter
Max: 31 mm / Min: 29 mm
Weight
28.29 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: Boston (Warren 590) 28,29

Public Commentary

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Literature

Delev, A History of the Tribes of South-western Thrace in the First Millenium B.C., Sofia 2014 p. 387

Peykov, Catalogue of the Coins from Thrace. Part I: Tribal and Rulers' Coinages of Thracians, Paeonians, Celts and Scythians 5th c. B.C. - 1st c. A.D., Veliko Tărnovo 2011 p. 14, nr. A0540

Tzamalis, Relations militaires des tribus de la région Thraco-Macédonienne avec des arm'ees Perse et Grecques. L'évidence des monnaies, Bucarest 2011 p. 584, nr. 13

Delev, A History of the Tribes of South-western Thrace in the First Millenium B.C., Sofia 2014 p. 387

Peykov, Catalogue of the Coins from Thrace. Part I: Tribal and Rulers' Coinages of Thracians, Paeonians, Celts and Scythians 5th c. B.C. - 1st c. A.D., Veliko Tărnovo 2011 p. 14, nr. A0540

Tzamalis, Relations militaires des tribus de la région Thraco-Macédonienne avec des arm'ees Perse et Grecques. L'évidence des monnaies, Bucarest 2011 p. 584, nr. 13

Gaebler, Fälschung makedonischer Münzen, Berlin 1931 p. 13-14, nr. 20-22, pl. 2, pic. 4-7

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cn coin 20080, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20080 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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