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cn coin 21207

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CN Type 4874 🔍

Mint
Birytis 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 325-300 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Kabeiros, left, wearing pileus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙΡΥ
Design
Club and ethnic within laurel wreath.
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Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 12.2 mm / Min: 11.5 mm
Weight
1.30 g
Axis
12
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Fonds général 548

Provenience: ex Slg. Waddington

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Paris W. 1103

Public Commentary

Diameter after plaster cast

Citation

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1336, nr. 2480, pl. CLXIX, pic. 8  ❐

Babelon, La collection Waddington au Cabinet des médailles. Inventaire sommaire 1 nr. 1103  ❐

Babelon, Inventaire sommaire de la Collection Waddington, Paris 1898 nr. 1103  ❐

Literature

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 250, pl. 6, pic. 250 ❐

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1075, pl. XLI, pic. 1075 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1336, nr. 2480, pl. CLXIX, pic. 8 ❐

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1075, pl. XLI, pic. 1075 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 40, nr. 6, pl. VIII, pic. 4 ❐

Fritze, Birytis und die Kabiren auf Münzen 24, 1904 p. 127, nr. 4, pl. V, pic. 4 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 250, pl. 6, pic. 250 ❐

Tekin and Özdizbay, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 9, Volume 1: Turkey. The Özkan Arikantürk collection. Troas, Istanbul 2015 nr. 354-360, pl. 18, pic. 354-360 ❐

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cn coin 21207, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21207 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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