cn coin 11740

Connected to Type

CN Type 2419 🔍

Mint

Kardia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

357/346-309 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Demeter, left, wearing corn wreath, earring and necklace.
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Reverse

Legend

ΚΑΡΔΙΑ

Design

Lion standing right, breaking spear in jaws.
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Symbol

grain of barley (position: in exergue)

Metrology

Denomination

Kardia A 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

8.08 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1971.431

Provenience: Fonds général

Literature

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 ❐

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 43, annot. Nominal A (this type not included in Tzvetkova) ❐

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. 112, nr. 1477 (Lion left there.) ❐

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cn coin 11740, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11740 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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