cn coin 21404

Connected to Type

CN Type 4947 🔍

Mint
Thymbra 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 350-300 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, left, wearing crested Attic helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Θ-Υ
Design
Metrology
Material
Weight
2.81 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: Fonds général 914A

Provenience: ex Naville XII 1926, lot 1745rn

Reproduction Owner

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

Public Commentary

Attribution uncertain. Cf. Robert (1951), 99; Cook, The Troad (1973), 118-120. For a different attribution of this coinage, see D.S. Lenger, Not Thymbra in Troad but Thyessos in Lydia, in: D. Boteva (ed.), Ex nummis lux. Studies in Ancient Numismatics in Honour of Dimitar Draganov. Sofia 2017, 221-227.

Citation

Naville, Auktionskatalog 12, Geneve 1926 p. 104, nr. 1745 

Literature

Spink & Son and Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins 5, 1921 p. 162, nr. 5443, pl. 196, pic. 5443

Naville, Auktionskatalog 12, Geneve 1926 nr. 1745

Weber, On some Unpublished or Rare Greek Coins 16, 1896 p. 23, nr. 44, pl. II, pic. 20

Head, Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics, Oxford 1911 p. 550

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cn coin 21404, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21404 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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