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cn coin 8255

Connected to Type

CN Type 303 🔍

Mint
Selymbria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-473/470 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Sel_0017_V7 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΣΑ
Design
Cock standing left.
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Reverse
Die
Sel_0017_R16 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
Octobol 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 16 mm / Min: 15 mm
Weight
4.95 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p101B.1.Sam

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: SEL_3L_49_011o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 45, nr. 17, pl. 7  ❐

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

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 170, nr. 1, pic. Abb.  ❐

Head, Historia Numorum, Chicago 1967 nr. 271  ❐

Gardner, Coinage of the Athenian Empire 33, 1913 nr. 173  ❐

Literature

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

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 ❐

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cn coin 8255, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8255 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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