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cn coin 8442

Connected to Type

CN Type 307 🔍

Mint
Selymbria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-473/470 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Sel_0029_V5 🔍
Design
Cock standing right.
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Reverse
Die
Sel_0029_R4 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Diobol 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
8.5 mm
Weight
0.96 g
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.16447

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: SEL_3L_49_022o/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. 46, nr. 29.2  ❐

Naville, Monnaies grecques antiques,provenant des doubles du British Museum 5, Genf 1923 pl. 48, pic. 1571  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 46, nr. 29-30, pl. 7 ❐

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. 166, nr. 1634 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 8442, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8442 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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