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Dardanos, bronze coin — Cock right in fighting attitude (CN type 24315)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 325–250 BC

Issuing entity

Troas

Coin in bronze struck at Dardanos in Troas, dated c. 325–250 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 24315 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Horseman with spear, wearing chlamys und petasos, on horse galopping right. Reverse: Cock right in fighting attitude; beneath, ear of corn. Legend: ΔΑΡΔΑ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 2.4 g (from 1 recorded specimen) and a diameter of 14.1 mm (from 1 recorded specimen). Published references cited by the corpus: Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964, p. 50, nr. 18; Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942, nr. 304.

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Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Recorded diameter
14.1 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
2.4 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Dardanos
Region
Troas
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Horseman with spear, wearing chlamys und petasos, on horse galopping right.
Reverse type
Cock right in fighting attitude; beneath, ear of corn.
Reverse legend
ΔΑΡΔΑ

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/24315
Type corpus identifier
CN type 24315

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