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cn type 4699

Coinage
 

Ruler: Getas (Odrysian king)  

Tribe: Edoni  

Date

513-460 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Herdsman (Hermes?) standing right, wearing petasus, leading two oxen right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΓΕΤΑ ΒΑΣΙΛΕ(Υ,ΩΣ) ΗΔΩΝ(ΕΩ,Α)Ν
Design
Inscription surrounding a quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Type variations

1. Legend of the revers: ΓΕΤΑ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥ ΗΔΩΝΕΩΝ

2. Legend of the revers: ΓΕΤΑ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΗΔΩΝAΝ

Persons

stated authority: Getas 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Tristater (Octadrachm) 🔍
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 31.3 mm / Min: 28.4 mm
Average Weight
27.18 g (4x)
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. 74, nr. C0020-C0030  ❐

Delev, A History of the Tribes of South-western Thrace in the First Millenium B.C., Sofia 2014 p. 200  ❐

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. 57-58, nr. 20-21  ❐

editions

cn.edoni.1_ed.2  🔍

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cn type 4699, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4699 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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