Apollonia Pontike, Trite (CN type 21781)
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 21781. Obverse: Inverted anchor; under left fluke, crayfish, under right fluke, ethnicon. Reverse: Gorgoneion.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- Trite
- Recorded diameter
- 12–16.5 mm (from 27 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 3.21 g (mean of 36 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Apollonia Pontike
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- Thraco-Macedonian
Design
- Obverse type
- Inverted anchor; under left fluke, crayfish, under right fluke, ethnicon.
- Reverse type
- Gorgoneion.
- Obverse legend
- Α
Identification
- Period
- Classical Period
- Recorded findspots
- Varna (Варна), Sozopol (Созопол), Šumen Region
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21781
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 21781
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
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution