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cn coin 26959

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CN Type 5181 🔍

Mint
Gergis 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 350-300 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of the sibyl Herophile three quarter facing right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΓΕΡ
Design
Sphinx seated right.
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Symbol
corn-ear (position: below)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 16.7 mm / Min: 16.2 mm
Weight
3.88 g
Owner

H. Weber, London, gb

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Magnesia, 1891

Citation

Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins, New York 1975 p. 150, nr. 5377, pl. 194, pic. 5377  ❐

Literature

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1299-1300, nr. 2395, pl. CLXVI, pic. 15-16 ❐

Babelon, Catalogue de la collection De Luynes: monnayes grecques, Sala Bolognese 1977 p. 26, nr. 2515, pl. XCIV, pic. 2515 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 55, nr. 5-7, pl. X, pic. 14-15 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 339, pl. 8, pic. 339 ❐

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1146, pl. XLIV, pic. 1146 ❐

Baldus, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Deutschland. Staatliche Münzsammlung München. 19.Heft. Troas - Lesbos. Nr. 1-813 19, München 1991 nr. 199, pl. 7, pic. 199 ❐

Babelon, Catalogue de la collection De Luynes: monnayes grecques, Sala Bolognese 1977 p. 26, nr. 2515, pl. XCIV, pic. 2515 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1299-1300, nr. 2395, pl. CLXVI, pic. 15-16 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 55, nr. 5-7, pl. X, pic. 14-15 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 339, pl. 8, pic. 339 ❐

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1146, pl. XLIV, pic. 1146 ❐

Baldus, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Deutschland. Staatliche Münzsammlung München. 19.Heft. Troas - Lesbos. Nr. 1-813 19, München 1991 nr. 199, pl. 7, pic. 199 ❐

Tekin and Özdizbay, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 9, Volume 1: Turkey. The Özkan Arikantürk collection. Troas, Istanbul 2015 nr. 541-542, pl. 28, pic. 541-542 ❐

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