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cn coin 8499

Connected to Type

CN Type 319 🔍

Mint
Selymbria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 425/420-411/410 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Cock standing left.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΣΑ-ΛΥ
Design
Ear of corn.
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Metrology
Denomination
Octobol 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
4.30 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1919,1120.61

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: SEL_3L_49_051o/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. 48, nr. 61, pl. 8  ❐

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 pl. 99, pic. 2601  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 48, nr. 59-62 ❐

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. 1629 ❐

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cn coin 8499, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8499 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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