NM·8
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Coin type | |
| Coin type: | drachma, Arslan XIV |
| Description: | obverse: right-facing female head, reverse: legend and right-facing lion |
| Material (main component): | bronze |
| Average diameter: | 14 mm1.4 cm <br />0.551 in <br /> |
| Average thickness: | unknown |
| Average weight: | 1.75 g0.00175 kg <br />0.00386 lb <br /> |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown |
| Date: | 130-110 BC |
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| Number of known pieces: | 1 |
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| Mint / Main site: | Milano |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 48° 55' 6.98" N, 11° 52' 20.01" E |
Coin legend | |
| Idealised transliteration: | natoris |
| Idealised original script: |       
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| Position: | back, top |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script |
| Letter height: | 00 cm <br />0 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 7 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Inscription type: | unknown |
| Language: | unknown |
| Syntactic analysis: | NP |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | none |
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| Sources: | Arslan 2000: 232 |
Images
 Bronze drachma with natoris legend from Kelheim/Mitterfeld (Bavaria)
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Commentary
The coin was found in Kelheim/Mitterfeld (Bavaria) and is preserved in the Archäologisches Museum (Kelheim), though currently untraceable. See Overbeck 2000: 68.
Bibliography
| Arslan 2000 | Ermanno A. Arslan, "La monetazione con legende leponzie e la monetazione preromana dell'area leponzia e insubre", in: Raffaele C. De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (eds), I leponti tra mito e realtà. Raccolta di saggi in occasione della mostra Locarno, Castello Visconteo - Casorella, 20 maggio - 3 dicembre 2000, Verbania: Armando Dadò Editore 2000, 223-233. |
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