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cn coin 47809

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CN Type 5319 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Kavaros (Scythian king)  

Date

c. 230-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin, knotted around neck.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΚΑΥΑΡΟΥ
Design
Zeus (Aëtophoros) enthroned left, holding eagle and sceptre.
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Persons

Authority: Kavaros 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.18 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 170, 13./14.10.2008, lot 1215

Literature

Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 p. 82, nr. 107 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 47809, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47809 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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