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cn coin 27437

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CN Type 5475 🔍

Mint
Massalia 🔍  
Date

c. 495-460 BC

Archaic/Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of ram, left.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Standard: Phocean
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 9.3 mm / Min: 9 mm
Weight
0.89 g
Owner

Galleria, Museo e Medagliere Estense, Modena, it ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Modena 23, 0.89

Public Commentary

Attribution uncertain. Diameter after plaster cast

Literature

Furtwängler, Monnaies grecques en Gaule. Le trésor d'Auriol et le monnayage de Massalia 525/520-460 av. J.-C. 3, Fribourg 1978 p. 197-199, nr. 1-26, pl. 20, pic. Qa 1-26 (Group Qa)  ❐

Maurel, Corpus des monnaies de Marseille : Provence, Languedoc oriental, vallée du Rhône, [Poses] 2019 p. 22, nr. 49 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 43, nr. 10, pl. VIII, pic. 11 (As Kebren)  ❐

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cn coin 27437, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27437 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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