Parion, drachm (CN type 21221)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 500-480 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Mysiadrachm in silver struck at Parion in Mysia dated ca. 500-480 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 21221. Obverse: Gorgoneion. Reverse: Quadripartite quadratum incusum. A dot in each of three fields, and a curved line in the fourth.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- drachm
- Recorded diameter
- 13–16 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 3.91 g (mean of 3 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Parion
- Region
- Mysia
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- Chian
Design
- Obverse type
- Gorgoneion.
- Reverse type
- Quadripartite quadratum incusum. A dot in each of three fields, and a curved line in the fourth.
Identification
- Period
- Archaic Period
- Recorded findspots
- Demanhur
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21221
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 21221
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 bibliographyp. 85, nr. 143-144, pl. 3
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 1342
Research required
- Legends not transcribed in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution