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cn coin 11742

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CN Type 456 🔍

Mint
Kardia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357/346-309 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter facing, slightly turned left, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΚΑΡΔΙΑ
Design
Lion standing left, head turned back.
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Symbol
star (position: on the left) grain of barley (position: below)
Metrology
Denomination
Kardia A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
5.17 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: Fonds général 1526bis

Provenience: Ex coll. Borrell n° 39

Literature

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 47, nr. 82-89 ❐

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 47, nr. 82-89 ❐

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. 1478 ❐

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cn coin 11742, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11742 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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