cn type 4946

Mint

Thymbra 🔍

Region: Troas

Date

c. 350-300 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Laureate head of Zeus Ammon left.
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Reverse

Legend

ΘΥ

Design

Star with eight rays.
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Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 17.1 mm / Min: 15.7 mm

Average Weight

5.15 g (5x)

Axes

6 (1x) 9 (1x)

Public Commentary

For a different attribution of this coinage, see D.S. Lenger, Not Thymbra in Troad but Thyessos in Lydia, in: D. Boteva (ed.), Ex nummis lux. Studies in Ancient Numismatics in Honour of Dimitar Draganov. Sofia 2017, 221-227.

Citation

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1304-1305, nr. 2399, pl. CLXVI, pic. 20 ❐

Literature

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 89, nr. 1, pl. XVI, pic. 12 ❐

Tekin and Özdizbay, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 9, Volume 1: Turkey. The Özkan Arikantürk collection. Troas, Istanbul 2015 nr. 792-793, 795, pl. 40, pic. 792-793, 795 ❐

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1228-1229, pl. XLVII, pic. 1228-1229 ❐

Spink & Son and Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins 5, 1921 p. 162, nr. 5444, pl. 196, pic. 5444 ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 4946, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4946 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]