cn type 4947

Mint

Thymbra 🔍

Region: Troas

Date

c. 350-300 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, left, wearing crested Attic helmet.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Legend

ΘΥ

Design

Torch within laurel-wreath
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Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 17 mm / Min: 16 mm

Average Weight

2.81 g (3x)

Axes

3 (1x) 7 (1x)

Public Commentary

Attribution uncertain. Cf. Robert (1951), 99; Cook, The Troad (1973), 118-120. 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

Spink & Son and Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins 5, 1921 p. 162, nr. 5443, pl. 196, pic. 5443 ❐

Naville, Auktionskatalog 12, Geneve 1926 nr. 1745 ❐

Weber, On some Unpublished or Rare Greek Coins 16, 1896 p. 23, nr. 44, pl. II, pic. 20 ❐

Head, Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics, Oxford 1911 p. 550 ❐

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cn type 4947, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4947 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]