Apollonia Pontike, tetrobol (hemisiglos) (CN type 21301)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
4. Jh. v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thracetetrobol (hemisiglos) in silver struck at Apollonia Pontike in Thrace dated 4. Jh. v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 21301. Obverse: Gorgoneion. Reverse: Inverted anchor; under right fluke, crayfish, under left fluke, ethnicon.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- tetrobol (hemisiglos)
- Recorded diameter
- 11.1–18 mm (from 395 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 2.83 g (mean of 460 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Apollonia Pontike
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- Attic
Design
- Obverse type
- Gorgoneion.
- Reverse type
- Inverted anchor; under right fluke, crayfish, under left fluke, ethnicon.
- Reverse legend
- Α
Identification
- Period
- Classical/Hellenistic Period
- Recorded findspots
- Varna (Варна), Varna Region, Burgas Region, Šumen Region, Obročišče (Оброчище), Ruen (Руен), Medovec (Медовец), Šiloto (Шилото), Partizani (Партизани), Bălgarevo (Българево), Dolišče (Долище), Gorni Domljan (Горни Домлян), Kavarna (Каварна), Klimentovo (Климентово), Krumovo (Крумово), Markovo (Марково), Shumen, Sokolnik (Соколник), Sredna mahala (Средна махала), Suvorovo (Суворово), Östliches Balk
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21301
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 21301
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
- Research required
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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