cn type 4559
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cn type 4559

Coinage
Tribe/ethne  

Tribe: Derrones  

Edition
cn.derrones.1_ed.27
Date

500-460 BC

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Obverse
Legend
ΔΕΡΡΟΝΙΚΟΣ
Design
Two oxen, left, drawing biga.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Metrology
Denomination
Tetrastater (decadrachm) 🔍
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
Diameter
29 mm (1x)
Average Weight
33.58 g (1x)
Public Commentary

Nominal unsicher: Vorschlag CNT: Tetrastater.

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. 26, nr. A1530 

Delev, A History of the Tribes of South-western Thrace in the First Millenium B.C., Sofia 2014 p. 242 

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. 50, nr. 1 

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cn type 4559, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.derrones.1_ed.27 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/12]

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