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cn coin 8487

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CN Type 315 🔍

Mint
Selymbria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-473/470 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Cock standing left.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Σ-Α-/Λ-Υ
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
8 mm
Weight
0.50 g
Owner

Nomismatiko Mouseio, Athen, gr ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: SEL_3L_49_039o/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. 47, nr. 47.1, pl. 8  ❐

Oikonomos and Varoucha-Christodoulopoulos, Νομισματική Συλλογή Αναστασίου Σταμούλη, Athen 1955 nr. 404  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 47, nr. 45-50, pl. 7 (ΣΑΛΥ?)  ❐

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. 1636 ❐

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cn coin 8487, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8487 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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