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cn type 4875

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Birytis 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 325-300 BC

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Obverse
Design
Head of beardless Kabeiros, left, wearing pileus; on each side, star.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙΡΥ
Design
Club and ethnic within laurel wreath.
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Metrology
Material
Diameter
Max: 12.5 mm / Min: 10.8 mm
Average Weight
1.31 g (17x)
Axes
1 (2x) 6 (4x) 12 (2x)
Citation

Babelon, Catalogue de la collection De Luynes: monnayes grecques, Sala Bolognese 1977 p. 26, nr. 2511, pl. XCIV, pic. 2511 

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 40, nr. 4, pl. VIII, pic. 3 

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1336, nr. 2479, pl. CLXIX, pic. 6-7 

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1074, pl. XLI, pic. 1074 

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 249, pl. 6, pic. 249 

Tekin and Özdizbay, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 9, Volume 1: Turkey. The Özkan Arikantürk collection. Troas, Istanbul 2015 nr. 346-353, pl. 18, pic. 346-353 

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cn type 4875, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4875 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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