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cn coin 47906

Coinage
 

Ruler: Kotys I. (Odrysian king)  

Tribe: Odrysae  

Mint
Kypsela 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 383-359 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Horseman galopping right, wearing fluttering cloak and raising right arm.
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Reverse
Legend
ΚΟΤΥ(ΟΣ)
Design
Cotyle within incuse square.
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Persons

Sitter: Kotys I. 🔍  

Authority: Kotys I. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
medium denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
Weight
8.45 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 191, 11./12. 10. 2010, lot 1203

Literature

Topalov, Urban bronze coins of small denomination from the Propontis area with images of a conical vessel with two handles, dynastic symbol of the coinage of the early Odrysian kings of the 5th-4th centuries B.C.; Genealogy of the Odrysian Dynasty from the end of the 6th to the 3rd quarter of 4th century B.C.; Catalogue of early Thracian tribal coins of 6th-5th century B.C., anepigraphic types of coins minted on the territory of the early Odrysian Kingdom and early Odrysian regal coins of 5th-4th century B.C., Sofia 2005 p. 81, nr. 101

Topalov et al., Contribution to the study of the earliest anepigraphic coins minted in southwestern Thrace : (middle of 6th century BC -- first quarter of 5th century BC), Sofia 2017 p. 153, nr. 149

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cn coin 47906, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47906 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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