cn type 4870

Mint

Birytis 🔍

Region: Troas

Date

c. 325-300 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of bearded Kabeiros, right, wearing pileus.
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Reverse

Legend

ΒΙΡΥ

Design

Triskeles in form of crescents. Linear border.
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Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 10 mm / Min: 8.1 mm

Average Weight

0.93 g (9x)

Axes

3 (1x) 4 (1x) 9 (1x) 12 (5x)

Citation

Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins, New York 1975 p. 145, nr. 5337, pl. 193, pic. 5337 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 41, nr. 8, pl. VIII, pic. 5 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 135, nr. 2477, pl. CLXIX, pic. 3-4 ❐

Mannsperger, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 4. Heft: Deutschland. Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen. Mysien - Ionien. Nr. 2174-3306, München 1989 nr. 2572, pl. 90, pic. 2572 ❐

Tekin and Özdizbay, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 9, Volume 1: Turkey. The Özkan Arikantürk collection. Troas, Istanbul 2015 nr. 364-365, pl. 19, pic. 364-365 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 253, pl. 6, pic. 253 ❐

Baldus, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Deutschland. Staatliche Münzsammlung München. 19.Heft. Troas - Lesbos. Nr. 1-813 19, München 1991 nr. 171-172, pl. 6, pic. 171-172 ❐

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cn type 4870, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4870 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]