cn coin 24224

Connected to Type

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
Weight
1.15 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: Fonds général 553.4

Provenience: Ex-vente Naville XII.1926 n. 1745

Literature

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

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

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 24224, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_24224 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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