cn type 12131

Mint

Gargara 🔍

Region: Troas

Date

c. 375-340 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Laureate head of Apollo, right.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Legend

ΓΑΡΓ

Design

Grazing bull to the left
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Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 15 mm / Min: 12 mm

Average Weight

2.94 g (8x)

Axes

1 (2x) 6 (2x)

Public Commentary

Lazzarini 2021, p. 129-130: 380-350 BC.

Citation

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 52, nr. 3, pl. X, pic. 5 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1261-1262, nr. 2289, pl. CLXIII, pic. 15 ❐

Babelon, Inventaire sommaire de la Collection Waddington, Paris 1898 nr. 782 ❐

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1131, pl. XLIII, pic. 1131 ❐

Bosch and Kraft, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Heft 5: Sammlung v. Aulock. Troas, Aeolis, Lesbos, 1439-1767, Berlin 1959 nr. 1508-1509, pl. 47, pic. 1508-1509 ❐

Lazzarini, Gárgara (Troade). Le monete d'argento delle due città 122, 2021 p. 129-130, pic. 26-27 ❐

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cn type 12131, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12131 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]