cn type 4496

Coinage

Tribe: Derrones

Date

500-460 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΔΕΡΡΟΝΙ(ΚΟΝ)

Design

Charioteer (ruler?) in biga drawn by two oxen, right, holding whip.
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Symbol

sun symbol (position: above) palmette (position: below)

Reverse

Design

Triskeles consisting of bulls' legs within incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Tetrastater (dodecadrachm) 🔍
Standard: reduced Aeginetan

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 35.6 mm / Min: 31.4 mm

Average Weight

40.76 g (2x)

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. 21, nr. A1370 ❐

Delev, A History of the Tribes of South-western Thrace in the First Millenium B.C., Sofia 2014 p. 246 ❐

Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 p. 66, nr. 1 ❐

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. 53, nr. 8 ❐

editions

cn.derrones.1_ed.16 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 4496, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4496 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]