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cn coin 23398

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CN Type 8455 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Attalos I. (Hellenistic king)  

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 241-197 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Philetairos, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΦΙΛΕΤΑΙΡΟΥ
Design
Athena enthroned left, holding wreath in right hand and resting her leftarm on shield.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Symbol
Bow (position: on the right) ivy leaf (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Philetairos 🔍  

Authority: Attalos I. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25.9 mm
Weight
16.95 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41767995

Provenience: Fonds général.1457; Waddington 970

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Paris W. 970; cn-pergamon-K_0315

Public Commentary

Durchmesser nach Gips.

Citation

Westermark and Westermark, Das Bildnis des Philetairos von Pergamon: Corpus der Münzprägung, Stockholm 1961 p. 60, nr. V.XLVIII-R1b  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1612, pl. 81  ❐

Literature

Westermark and Westermark, Das Bildnis des Philetairos von Pergamon: Corpus der Münzprägung, Stockholm 1961 p. 59-62, nr. V.XXXIX-V.LXIII, annot. Gruppe IV A ❐

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cn coin 23398, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_23398 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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