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cn coin 49284

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CN Type 4854 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Metokos (Medokos) (Odrysian king)  

Tribe: Odrysae  

Date

405-390 BC

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Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Metokos, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΗΤΟΚΟ
Design
Double axe.
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Symbol
grape (position: on the right)
Persons

Authority: Metokos (Medokos) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Hekta (diobol) 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
0.99 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 147, 6./7. 3. 2006, lot 1299

Literature

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. 46, nr. B0150-B0160 ❐

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 91 ❐

Topalov, Plemena i vladeteli ot zemite na Odriskoto carstvo i graničnite mu jugozapadni teritorii ot kraja na VI do sredata na IV v. pr.n.e : prinosi kăm proučvane monetosečeneto i istorijata na drevna Trakija, Sofia 1998 p. 324, nr. 19 ❐

Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 p. 69-70, nr. 25-26, pl. 5, pic. 25-26 ❐

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