cn type 318
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cn type 318

Mint
Selymbria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-473/470 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
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Design
Cock standing left.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemiobol 🔍  
Standard: persian?
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 8 mm / Min: 6 mm
Average Weight
0.36 g (5x)
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. 47-48, nr. 53-58, pl. 7-8  ❐

Literature

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. 166, nr. 1637 ❐

editions

cn.selymbria.1_ed.15  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 318, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/318 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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