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cn coin 51646

Connected to Type

CN Type 10946 🔍

Mint
Pergamon 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

336-323/320 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Legend
ΠΕΡΓΑ(Μ)(Η)
Design
Statue of Athena with spear and shield on base.
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Metrology
Denomination
Diobol 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
11.5 mm
Weight
1.39 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 84.750

Provenience: Acquired in the division of coins following the excavations at Assos. Some coins in the group were said to have been "purchased from natives of the surrounding district." No specific findspot is known for this coin. 1884: gift of the Archaeological Institute of America to the Museum of Fine Arts

Citation

Bell, Coins from Assos, London-Cambridge, MA-Leipzig 1902 p. 307, nr. 175  ❐

Literature

Marcellesi, Pergame: de la fin du Ve au début du Ier siècle avant J.-C.: pratiques monétaires et histoire, Pisa 2012 p. 175, nr. 7 ❐

Fritze, Zur Chronologie der autonomen Prägung von Pergamon, Berlin p. 50 ❐

Fritze, Die Münzen von Pergamon, Berlin 1910 p. 5 ❐

Six, Monnaies grecques, inédites et incertaines 10, 1890 p. 201, nr. 6 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1559-1562. 1564-1566 ❐

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cn coin 51646, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51646 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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