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cn coin 3102

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CN Type 5205 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Mostis (Hellenistic king)  

Date

c. 130-100 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Draped bust of Mostis, right, wearing taenia.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΜΟΣΤΙΔΟΣ // ΕΠΙ ΣΑΔΑΛΟΥ / ΕΤΟVΣ ΙΓ
Design
Athena (Nikephoros) enthroned left, wearing long garment and crested helmet, holding Nike, crowning king's name, in outstretched right hand; left arm resting on shield behind, decorated with gorgoneion; in background, transverse spear; throne with lion feet and a serpent.
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Persons

Sitter: Mostis 🔍  

Authority: Mostis 🔍  

Magistrate: Sadalos (Mostis) 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
32 mm
Weight
16.56 g
Axis
11
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18200227

Citation

Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 p. 86, nr. 131, pl. 17  ❐

Callataÿ, Le roi thrace Mostis et une surfrappe d'un alexandre tardif de Mésembria 137, 1991 p. 37 ff., nr. 41  ❐

Literature

Price, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum 9 The British Museum 1. The Black Sea, 1993 nr. 309 ❐

Peykov, Catalogue of the Coins from Thrace. Part I: Tribal and Rulers' Coinages of Thracians, Paeonians, Celts and Scythians 5th c. B.C. - 1st c. A.D., Veliko Tărnovo 2011 p. 98, nr. C4500 ❐

Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 p. 86, nr. 131 ❐

Peykov, Catalogue of the Coins from Thrace. Part I: Tribal and Rulers' Coinages of Thracians, Paeonians, Celts and Scythians 5th c. B.C. - 1st c. A.D., Veliko Tărnovo 2011 p. 98-99, nr. C4500 ❐

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