cn coin 7251

Coinage

Ruler: Kotys II. (Kotys III.) (Odrysian king)

Date

c. 57-48 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing taenia and ivy wreath with five leaves and two fruits. Hair dress rolled in the back and with two curls falling on his back.
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Reverse

Legend

ΚΟΤΥΟϹ - ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗ

Design

Nude Heracles standing facing, head left, resting right hand on club, left hand on hip, holding lion skin in left arm.
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Metrology

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

31 mm

Weight

16.33 g

Axis

Owner

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Münzkabinett, Dresden, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: AAB1609

Literature

Ziegaus, Kelten Geld: Münzen der Kelten und angrenzender nichtgriechischer Völkerschaften; Sammlung Christian Flesche; Einführung und Katalog, München 2010 p. 753 ff. ❐

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cn coin 7251, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7251 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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