cn coin 29042

Connected to Type

CN Type 307 🔍

Mint
Selymbria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-473/470 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Metrology
Denomination
Diobol 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
Weight
1.01 g
Axis
12
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb

Owner Inventory No.: 1995,0605.37

Provenience: Lot 208 Neales Nottingham 25/11/93.

Public Commentary

Die Gewichte der Prägung von Selymbria lassen sich auch mit dem attischen und teilweise einem reduziert persischen Münzfuß in Einklang bringen.

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 46, nr. 29 f., pl. 7

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 46, nr. 29-30, pl. 7

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 166, nr. 1634

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cn coin 29042, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_29042 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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