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cn coin 63028

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CN Type 22006 🔍

Mint
Apollonia Pontike 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 425–306 v. Chr.

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Apollonia_Pontica_V345 🔍
Design
Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding bow in right hand.
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Countermark
Star.
Reverse
Die
Apollonia_Pontica_R540 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Α // ΘΑΛΗΣ
Design
Inverted anchor;  under right fluke, crayfish, under left fluke, ethnicon.
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Symbol
crab (position: at the bottom right) A (position: at the bottom left)
Persons

Magistrate: Thales 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
tetrachalkon 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
4.46 g
Axis
11
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1900.0606.23

Provenience: 1900, from Jean P. Lambros

Literature

Ivanova-Anaplioti, Die Münzprägung von Apollonia Pontike nr. 3441 ❐

Steinwand, Apollonia Pontika, Berlin 1910 p. 38, nr. 66.2 ❐

Price, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum 9 The British Museum 1. The Black Sea, 1993 nr. 188 ❐

Svoronos, Περιγραφικός κατάλογος των προσκτήματων του Εθνικού Νομισματικού Μουσείου από 1 Σεπτεμβρίου 1905 μέχρι 31 Αυγούστου 1906 9, 1906 p. 285 ❐

Wroth, Greek Coins Acquired by the British Museum in 1900 20, 1900 p. 280, nr. 9, pl. XIII, pic. 9 ❐

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cn coin 63028, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_63028 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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