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cn coin 8254

Connected to Type

CN Type 303 🔍

Mint
Selymbria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-473/470 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Sel_0016_V6 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΣΑ
Design
Cock standing left.
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Reverse
Die
Sel_0016_R15 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
Octobol 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
4.83 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1364

Provenience: Fonds général 1364

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: SEL_3L_49_010o/r

Citation

Hennin, Manuel de numismatique ancienne, Luxemborg 1872 pl. 13, pic. 1  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1791, pl. 56, pic. 14  ❐

Literature

Brandis, Das Münz-, Maß- und Gewichtswesen in Vorderasien, Berlin 1866 nr. 525 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 45, nr. 16-18 ❐

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 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 8254, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8254 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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