cn type 12128

Mint

Gargara 🔍

Region: Troas

Date

around 400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Male, youthful head, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΓΑΡ

Design

Horse galloping, right; in incuse square
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Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 11.1 mm / Min: 10 mm

Average Weight

1.92 g (5x)

Axes

3 (1x) 6 (2x) 9 (1x)

Public Commentary

Datierung aufgrund der Metrologie (chiotischer Münzfuß). Für die Chronologie des chiotischen Münzfußes in Kleinasien, siehe A. Meadows, The Chian Revolution, BCH Suppl. 53, 2011, 273-295. Cf. Lazzarini 2021, p. 125: 450-440 v. Chr.

Citation

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 315, pl. 7, pic. 315 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 52, nr. 2, pl. X, pic. 4 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1261-1262, nr. 2287, pl. CLXIII, pic. 13 ❐

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1130, pl. XLIII, pic. 1130 ❐

Hirsch, Auktionskatalog (Sammlung Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber/Hamburg) 21, München p. 177, nr. 2575, pl. XXXV, pic. 2575 ❐

Tekin and Özdizbay, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 9, Volume 1: Turkey. The Özkan Arikantürk collection. Troas, Istanbul 2015 nr. 483, pl. 25, pic. 483 ❐

Lazzarini, Gárgara (Troade). Le monete d'argento delle due città 122, 2021 p. 124, pic. 13 ❐

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cn type 12128, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12128 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]