cn type 315

Edition

An edition has been created for this type.🔍

Mint

Selymbria 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 492/490-473/470 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Cock standing left.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΑΛΥ

Design

Quadripartite incuse square, within Ethnic.
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Metrology

Denomination

Obol 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 8 mm / Min: 7 mm

Average Weight

0.51 g (7x)

Public Commentary

Die Gewichte der Prägung von Selymbria lassen sich auch mit dem attischen und teilweise einem reduziert persischen Münzfuß in Einklang bringen.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 47, nr. 45-50, pl. 7  (ΣΑΛΥ?)  ❐

Literature

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 166, nr. 1636  ❐

editions

cn.selymbria.1_ed.11 🔍

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cn type 315, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/315 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/15]

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