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cn coin 21181

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.
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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
Max: 8.5 mm / Min: 8.2 mm
Weight
0.53 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Provenience: Macridi 94

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 586, 0.53

Public Commentary

Diameter after plaster cast

Citation

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

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

Literature

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 ❐

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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