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cn coin 8545

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CN Type 322 🔍

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
Grain.
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
10 mm
Weight
0.76 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04 643

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: SEL_3L_49_063o/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. 49, nr. 71.2  ❐

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 nr. 498  ❐

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 pl. 44, pic. 820  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 49, nr. 69-73, pl. 8 ❐

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. 167, nr. 1639 ❐

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cn coin 8545, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8545 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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