Abydos, unit (CN type 3155)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 200-100 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Troasunit in bronze struck at Abydos in Troas dated ca. 200-100 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 3155. Obverse: Bust of Artemis, seen from front, wearing mural crown. Reverse: Stag standing right, head left and down; all within laurel-wreath.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- unit
- Recorded diameter
- 20.8–24 mm (from 3 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 7.48 g (mean of 3 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Abydos
- Region
- Troas
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Bust of Artemis, seen from front, wearing mural crown.
- Reverse type
- Stag standing right, head left and down; all within laurel-wreath.
- Reverse legend
- ΑΒΥ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/3155
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 3155
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. 620, nr. 192, pl. VII, pic. 17
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 16, nr. 40, pl. II, pic. 40
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 159, nr. 1948, pl. XV, pic. 1948
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution