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cn type 5157

Coinage
 

Ruler: Seuthes III. (Hellenistic king)  

Tribe: Odrysae  

Date

330-295 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of bearded Seuthes III (or Zeus), right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΕΥΘΟΥ
Design
Symbol
star (position: below)
Persons

Authority: Seuthes III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
Diameter
11 mm (1x)
Average Weight
1.17 g (1x)
Public Commentary

Avers-Ikonographie in der Literatur teilweise auch als Kopf des Zeus interpretiert.

Citation

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 183, nr. 6 

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. 86, nr. 121 

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. 69, nr. B0870 

Jurukova, Monetite na Trakijskite plemena i vladeteli, Sofia 1992 p. 260, nr. 100 

editions

cn.seuthes_iii_odrysian_thrace.1_ed.9  🔍

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cn type 5157, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5157 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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