cn type 21219

Mint

Parion 🔍

Region: Mysia

Date

c. 350-320 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΠΑΡΙ

Design

Bull standing left, head turned back.
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Symbol

Bee (position: below)

Reverse

Design

Gorgoneion.
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Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

13 mm (1x)

Average Weight

2.37 g (3x)

Axes

11 (1x)

Public Commentary

For the chronology, see G. Le Rider, Deux trésors de monnaies grecques de la Propontide (1963) 53 f.; J. Youroukova, Les invasions macédoniennes en Thrace et les trouvailles monétaires, in: T. Hackens - R. Weiller (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 9th International Congress of Numismatics (1982) 217 f. (c. 350-320 BC).

Citation

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 96, nr. 17 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 265 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1360-1361 ❐

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cn type 21219, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/21219 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]