cn type 2216

Mint

Apros 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

260-252/50 oder 240/230-218/213

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΠΡΗΝΩΝ

Design

Cithara.
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Metrology

Denomination

large denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

23.1 mm (1x)

Average Weight

6.06 g (1x)

Axes

12 (1x)

Citation

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. 60, nr. 1351 (Denomination B. The dating of the coins depends on the dating of the reign of Kavaros, for which two alternatives, c. 260-252/50 BC or 240/230-218/213 BC are discussed.) ❐

Manov and Damyanov, The first mint of Cavarus, the last king of the Celtic Kingdom in Thrace, 2013 p. 17, pl. 2, pic. 2 ❐

Literature

Draganov, Coins of the unknown mint of Apros in Thrace, Madrid 2005 p. 339-343 ❐

editions

cn.apros.1_ed.1 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 2216, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/2216 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]