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Image files are licensed Public Domain Mark 1.0. Münster, Archäologisches Museum der Universität, ID3487. Photographs by Nike Elsbroek.
Abakainon
Inventory no: M 8186
Class/status: City
Denomination: Litra
Date: ca. 450-440 v. Chr.
Country: Italy
Mint: Abakainon
Obverse: ABAK. Bärtiger männlicher Kopf (des Zeus?) nach r. mit Blattkranz.
Reverse: Schwein geht n. l., darüber AI, unten i. A. NI (N retrograd).
Production: struck
Coin, Silver, 0,65 g, 12 mm, 7 h
Vendor (to prev. Owner):
Münzauktion A. Tkalec (Zurich)
Previous owners:
Hermann Twiehaus (01.08.1937-) until 2023
Publications: O. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Sicily (including Lipara), HGC 2 (2012) 5 Nr. 5 (ca. 450-440 v. Chr.); A. Bertino, Le emissioni monetali di Abaceno, in: Le emissioni dei centri siculi fino all'epoca di Timoleonte e i loro rapporti con la monetazione delle colonie greche di Sicilia, Annali del Istituto Italiano di Numismatica Suppl. 20 (1975) S. 114 Abb. auf Taf. XII,6 var. (dort Getreidekorn unterm Schwein) und XIV,4 (Vs., 440 v. Chr.).
Web Portals:
http://www.ancientsiciliancoins.com/ascoins/view/4
https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/abacaenum.bertino_1975.pl.xii.n1-15
Photographer Obverse: Nike Elsbroek
Photographer Reverse: Nike Elsbroek
Münster, Archäologisches Museum der Universität
Accession Year of access 2023 Zugangsart Schenkung
Recommended Quotation: Digitales Münzkabinett der Universität Münster, M 8186
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