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cn coin 55167

Connected to Type

CN Type 2592 🔍

Mint
Abydos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 350-325 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΒΥ ΠΡΩΤΑΓΟΡΑΣ
Design
Eagle standing left, wings closed.
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Symbol
trident (position: at the bottom left) tendril (position: on the right)
Persons

Magistrate: Protagoras 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
2.42 g
Axis
6
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p105D.1.Aby

Provenience: Payne Knight 1824

Citation

Knight, Nummi veteres civitatum, regum, gentium, et provinciarum, Londini in Museo, Londinum 1830 p. 105, nr. D.1  ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 4, nr. 31, pl. 1, pic. 15  ❐

Literature

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1330, nr. 2460 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 20-21, pl. 1, pic. 20-21 ❐

Tekin and Özdizbay, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 9, Volume 1: Turkey. The Özkan Arikantürk collection. Troas, Istanbul 2015 nr. 8, pl. 1, pic. 8 ❐

Hill and Ward, Descriptive catalogue of ancient Greek coins: belonging to John Ward, San Diego, Calif 1967 p. 102, nr. 629 ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 2, nr. 2, pl. I, pic. 10 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 4, nr. 31-32, pl. 1, pic. 15 ❐

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cn coin 55167, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_55167 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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