cn type 4237

Coinage

Tribe: Bisaltae

Date

480-460 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Horseman (Hermes?) standing right with petasus and two spears, leading horse right.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Metrology

Denomination

Tristater (Octadrachm) 🔍
Standard: reduced Aeginetan

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 32 mm / Min: 27 mm

Average Weight

26.91 g (12x)

Citation

Tzamalis, Relations militaires des tribus de la région Thraco-Macédonienne avec des arm'ees Perse et Grecques. L'évidence des monnaies, Bucarest 2011 p. 584, nr. 11 ❐

Gaebler, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands 3, 1906 p. 49, nr. 6, pl. 12, pic. 1 ❐

Peykov, Catalogue of the Coins from Thrace. Part I: Tribal and Rulers' Coinages of Thracians, Paeonians, Celts and Scythians 5th c. B.C. - 1st c. A.D., Veliko Tărnovo 2011 p. 33, nr. A3020 ❐

Delev, A History of the Tribes of South-western Thrace in the First Millenium B.C., Sofia 2014 p. 191-192 ❐

editions

cn.bisaltae.1_ed.4 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 4237, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4237 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]