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cn type 4240

Coinage
Tribe/ethne  

Tribe: Bisaltae  

Edition
cn.bisaltae.1_ed.5
Date

480-460 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Horseman (Hermes?) standing right with petasus and double spear pointing upward, leading horse right.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Metrology
Denomination
half-stater (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 16.3 mm
Average Weight
4.15 g (8x)
Citation

Delev, A History of the Tribes of South-western Thrace in the First Millenium B.C., Sofia 2014 p. 192  ❐

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. 35-36, nr. A3090-A3100  ❐

editions

cn.bisaltae.1_ed.5  🔍

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cn type 4240, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.bisaltae.1_ed.5 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/14]

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