Apollonia Pontike, Trite (CN type 12918)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 465–425 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceTrite in silver struck at Apollonia Pontike in Thrace dated ca. 465–425 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 12918. Obverse: Inverted anchor; under right fluke, crayfish. Reverse: Gorgoneion.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- Trite
- Recorded diameter
- 11.53–18.56 mm (from 136 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 3.31 g (mean of 234 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Apollonia Pontike
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- Thraco-Macedonian
Design
- Obverse type
- Inverted anchor; under right fluke, crayfish.
- Reverse type
- Gorgoneion.
Identification
- Period
- Classical Period
- Recorded findspots
- Varna (Варна), Varna Region, Šumen Region, Obročišče (Оброчище), Ruen (Руен), Dobrič Region, Djadovo (Дядово), Dolišče (Долище), Karlovo (Карлово), Razgrad Region, Šabla (Шабла), Östliches Balkangebirge, Batova Fluss
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12918
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 12918
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 453
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 150-152
Research required
- Legends not transcribed in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution