cn coin 68978

Connected to Type

CN Type 1666 🔍

Mint

Mesembria 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

230-215 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of an amazon, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΜΕΤΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ

Design

Athena (Alkis) standing left, holding spear and shield. Variant B.
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Metrology

Denomination

heavy denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

21 mm

Weight

7.22 g

Axis

12

Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: M 1128
Provenience: G 58/10 (Welz 1966; ex Gaettens [08.05.1956])

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 212-232, nr. 129-379, pl. 38-48, pic. 129-379  ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 145, nr. 1575  ❐

Web Reference: https://mk-bochum.ikmk.net/object?id=ID1865  ❐

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cn coin 68978, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_68978 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/07]

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