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cn coin 21178

Connected to Type

CN Type 4841 🔍

Mint
Birytis 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 350-300 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Wreathed head of beardless Herakles in three-quarter view, right; behind shoulder, club. Linear border.
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Reverse
Design
Head of beardless Kabeiros, left, wearing pileus; on each side star; behind nack, astragalus.
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
8.4 mm
Weight
0.51 g
Axis
5
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: ex Slg. Imhoof-Blumer, 1900

Reproduction Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Bln 0.51

Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 466, nr. 38  ❐

Fritze, Birytis und die Kabiren auf Münzen 24, 1904 p. 105  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1335, nr. 2476  ❐

Literature

Mannsperger, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 4. Heft: Deutschland. Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen. Mysien - Ionien. Nr. 2174-3306, München 1989 nr. 2571, pl. 90, pic. 2571 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1335, nr. 2476, pl. CLXIX, pic. 1-2 ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 466, nr. 38 ❐

Mannsperger, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 4. Heft: Deutschland. Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen. Mysien - Ionien. Nr. 2174-3306, München 1989 nr. 2571, pl. 90, pic. 2571 ❐

Fritze, Birytis und die Kabiren auf Münzen 24, 1904 p. 105, pl. V, pic. 1-2 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1335, nr. 2476, pl. CLXIX, pic. 1-2 ❐

Hirsch, Sammlung Gustav Philipsen/Kopenhagen 25, München 1909, 1909 p. 154, nr. 1889, pl. XXIII, pic. 1889 ❐

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