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cn type 4698

Coinage
 

Ruler: Getas (Odrysian king)  

Tribe: Edoni  

Date

513-460 BC

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Obverse
Legend
ΓΕΤΑ ΒΑΣΙΣΙΛΕΥ ΗΔΩΝΕΩΝ
Design
Herdsman (Hermes?) standing right, wearing petasus, leading two oxen right.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Persons

stated authority: Getas 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Tristater (Octadrachm) 🔍
Material
Average Weight
28.18 g (1x)
Citation

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. 73, nr. C0010 

Delev, A History of the Tribes of South-western Thrace in the First Millenium B.C., Sofia 2014 p. 300 

Topalov, Urban bronze coins of small denomination from the Propontis area with images of a conical vessel with two handles, dynastic symbol of the coinage of the early Odrysian kings of the 5th-4th centuries B.C.; Genealogy of the Odrysian Dynasty from the end of the 6th to the 3rd quarter of 4th century B.C.; Catalogue of early Thracian tribal coins of 6th-5th century B.C., anepigraphic types of coins minted on the territory of the early Odrysian Kingdom and early Odrysian regal coins of 5th-4th century B.C., Sofia 2005 p. 57, nr. 19 

editions

cn.edoni.1_ed.4  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 4698, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4698 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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