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cn coin 20296

Connected to Type

CN Type 2218 🔍

Mint
Apros 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

260-252/50 oder 240/230-218/213

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΠΡΗΝΩΝ
Design
Oval shield.
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Symbol
lyre (position: top right)
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17.1 mm
Weight
3.43 g
Axis
11
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 2023.41.2

Provenience: SHH 6247; Solidus 9 (8.10.2016) 52

Literature

Manov and Damyanov, The first mint of Cavarus, the last king of the Celtic Kingdom in Thrace, 2013 p. 17, pl. 2 ❐

Draganov, Coins of the unknown mint of Apros in Thrace, Madrid 2005 p. 335, pic. 1-3 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 nr. 1352 ❐

Manov and Damyanov, The first mint of Cavarus, the last king of the Celtic Kingdom in Thrace, 2013 p. 17, pl. 2, pic. 1+1a ❐

Draganov, Coins of the unknown mint of Apros in Thrace, Madrid 2005 p. 339, pic. 1-3 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 60, nr. 1352 (Denomination C. The dating of the coinage dedpends on the dating of the reign of Cavarus for which to possibilities, ca. 260-252/50 v. Chr. oder 240/230-218/213, are discussed.)  ❐

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cn coin 20296, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20296 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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