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cn type 20465

Mint
Ilion 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

133–119 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena to right with Attic helmet, decorated with laurel wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΘΗΝΑΣ ΙΛΙΑΔΟΣ / ΜΕΛΑΝΙΠΠΙΔΟΥ
Design
Athena Ilias standing right, wearing kalathos, holding spear in her raised right hand and spindle in her left.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Symbol
owl (position: on the left) Cow suspended from column (position: on the right)
Persons

Magistrate: Melanippides 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
32 mm (1x)
Average Weight
16.17 g (2x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Citation

Bellinger, Troy: the coins, Princeton 1961 p. 31, nr. T81, pl. 4, pic. T81  ❐

Fritze, Die Münzen von Ilion, Athen 1902 p. 482, nr. 19  ❐

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cn type 20465, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20465 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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