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Gargara, coin coin — Bull charging right (CN type 12185)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 133–50 BC

Issuing entity

Troas

Coin struck at Gargara in Troas, dated c. 133–50 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 12185 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Laureate head of Zeus, right. Reverse: Bull charging right. Legend: ΓΑΡΓΑΡΕΩΝ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 8.09 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 20–20.6 mm (from 2 recorded specimens). Published references cited by the corpus: Bosch and Kraft, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Heft 5: Sammlung v. Aulock. Troas, Aeolis, Lesbos, 1439-1767, Berlin 1959, nr. 1512, pl. 47, pic. 1512.

Evidence at a glance

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Historical context

Gargara was an ancient Greek city situated on the southern coast of the Troad region of Anatolia, originally founded beneath Mount Gargaron on Mount Ida, known today as Koca Kaya. During the 4th century BCE, the settlement shifted roughly 5.8 km south to a coastal plain near modern Arıklı and Nusratlı in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale Province. Operating as a civic authority during the Hellenistic Period, the city issued this coin type between c. 133 and 50 BC.

Physical characteristics

Recorded diameter
20–20.6 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
8.09 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Gargara
Region
Troas
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Laureate head of Zeus, right.
Reverse type
Bull charging right.
Reverse legend
ΓΑΡΓΑΡΕΩΝ

Identification

Period
Hellenistic Period
How to identify
Check the mint name or ethnic, the reverse type and the legend together, then compare weight and module; types from the same mint often differ only in legend arrangement, magistrate names or control marks.
Type corpus record
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12185
Type corpus identifier
CN type 12185

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