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cn coin 46715

Connected to Type

CN Type 20445 🔍

Mint
Ilion 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

95–87 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena to right with Attic helmet, decorated with laurel wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΘΗΝΑΣ ΙΛΙΑΔΟΣ / ΜΕΝΕΦΡΟΝΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΜΕΝΕΦΡΟΝΟΣ
Design
Athena Ilias standing right, wearing kalathos, holding spear in her raised right hand and spindle in her left.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Symbol
ant (position: on the right)
Persons

Magistrate: Menephron Menephronos 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
16.25 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1841,B.2596

Provenience: Burgon 1841

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London_797_c.58,13

Citation

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 58, nr. 13  ❐

Ellis-Evans, The Koinon of Athena Ilias and its Coinage 28, 2016 p. 117, nr. O29/R20  ❐

Literature

Bellinger, Troy: the coins, Princeton 1961 p. 33, nr. T96, pl. 5, pic. T96 ❐

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cn coin 46715, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_46715 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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