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cn coin 27250

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CN Type 5353 🔍

Mint
Sigeion 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 350-300 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena three-quarter facing right, wearing triple-crested helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΣΙΓΕ
Design
Two owls sharing a head, facing.
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Symbol
crescent (position: top right)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20.5 mm / Min: 19 mm
Weight
7.88 g
Axis
5
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Provenience: Bompois, 1882

Public Commentary

Diameter after plaster cast

Citation

Price, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Vol. VI: The Lewis Collection in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Part 1. The Greek and Hellenistic coins, London 1972 nr. 866, pic. 866  ❐

Bompois, Collection Ferdinand Bompois = M. H. Hoffmann, Auktionskatalog, Paris 16. Januar 1882, 1882 nr. 1445  ❐

Literature

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 87, nr. 14-16, pl. XVI, pic. 8-10 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1311-1312, nr. 2415, pl. CLXVII, pic. 5 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 493, pl. 11, pic. 493 ❐

Baldus, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Deutschland. Staatliche Münzsammlung München. 19.Heft. Troas - Lesbos. Nr. 1-813 19, München 1991 nr. 304-306, pl. 11, pic. 304-306 ❐

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1217, pl. XLVI, pic. 1217 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 87, nr. 14-16, pl. XVI, pic. 8-10 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1311-1312, nr. 2415, pl. CLXVII, pic. 5 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 493, pl. 11, pic. 493 ❐

Baldus, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Deutschland. Staatliche Münzsammlung München. 19.Heft. Troas - Lesbos. Nr. 1-813 19, München 1991 nr. 304-306, pl. 11, pic. 304-306 ❐

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1217, pl. XLVI, pic. 1217 ❐

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