cn coin 68997

Connected to Type

CN Type 7211 🔍

Mint

Istros 🔍 ❐
Region: Moesia inferior ❐

Date

c. 360/350-300 BC
Classical/Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Two young male heads, facing, side by side, right one inverted.
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Reverse

Legend

ΙΣΤΡΙΗ

Design

Sea-eagle on dolphin standing left.
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Symbol

エ (position: Below tail)

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

18 mm

Weight

5.89 g

Axis

12

Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: M 1141
Provenience: G 59/3 (Welz 1966; ex Ball Nachf. [31.07.1933])

Literature

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 163, nr. 429  ❐

Dima, The Silver Coinage of Istros during the Hellenistic Period, Wetteren 2014 p. 24, pl. 4, pic. 1-6 (Group IV-ii (c. 340/330-313 BC))   ❐

Zaginajlo and Grebenkin, Klassifikacija rannich serebrjanych monet Istrii. (Russ.) [Klassifikation der frühen Silbermünzen von Histria.] 14, 1984 p. 28 ff. ((Group IV, c. 360/350-late 4th cent. BC))   ❐

Web Reference: https://mk-bochum.ikmk.net/object?id=ID1522  ❐

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cn coin 68997, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_68997 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/07]

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