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cn coin 8253

Connected to Type

CN Type 301 🔍

Mint
Selymbria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-473/470 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Sel_0013_V5 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΣΑ
Design
Cock standing left.
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Reverse
Die
Sel_0013_R12 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Octobol 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
4.24 g
Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: SEL_3L_49_009o/r

Public Commentary

Die Gewichte der Prägung von Selymbria lassen sich auch mit dem attischen und teilweise einem reduziert persischen Münzfuß in Einklang bringen.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 45, nr. 13, pl. 7  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 2, Cambridge 1926 p. 152, nr. 4272, pl. 155, pic. 3  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 45, nr. 1-15, pl. 7 (Thraco-macedon standard.)  ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 165, nr. 1628 ❐

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cn coin 8253, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8253 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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