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cn coin 69122

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CN Type 4872 🔍

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Birytis 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 325-300 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of beardless Kabeiros, left, wearing pileus; on each side, star.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙΡΥ
Design
Club and ethnic within laurel wreath.
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Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
3.96 g
Axis
4
Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: M 1682

Provenience: G 86/17 (Welz 1966, ex Cahn [16.03.1953])

Literature

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 40, nr. 1, pl. VIII, pic. 1 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1335, nr. 2481, pl. CLXIX, pic. 9-10 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 247, pl. 6, pic. 247 ❐

Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins, New York 1975 p. 144, nr. 5336, pl. 193, pic. 5336 ❐

Mannsperger, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 4. Heft: Deutschland. Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen. Mysien - Ionien. Nr. 2174-3306, München 1989 nr. 2573, pl. 90, pic. 2573 ❐

Tekin and Özdizbay, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 9, Volume 1: Turkey. The Özkan Arikantürk collection. Troas, Istanbul 2015 nr. 342-345, pl. 17, pic. 342-345 ❐

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1073, pl. XLI, pic. 1073 ❐

Web Reference: https://mk-bochum.ikmk.net/object?id=ID2502 ❐

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cn coin 69122, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_69122 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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