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Priapos, bronze coin — Apollo wearing long dress standing right (CN type 21436)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 100–30 BC

Issuing entity

Mysia

Coin in bronze struck at Priapos in Mysia, dated c. 100–30 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 21436 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Diademed bust of Artemis with quiver, right. Reverse: Apollo wearing long dress standing right, holding kithara; all in a laurel wreath. Legend: ΠΡΙΑΠ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 4.91 g (from 1 recorded specimen) and a diameter of 18 mm (from 1 recorded specimen). Published references cited by the corpus: Plankenhorn, Münzen aus Mysien, München 2022, p. 164, nr. 17.

Evidence at a glance

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Catalogue references
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Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Recorded diameter
18 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
4.91 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Priapos
Region
Mysia
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Diademed bust of Artemis with quiver, right.
Reverse type
Apollo wearing long dress standing right, holding kithara; all in a laurel wreath.
Reverse legend
ΠΡΙΑΠ

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/21436
Type corpus identifier
CN type 21436

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