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cn coin 13644

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CN Type 19912 🔍

Mint
Hephaistia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 276/261-167 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Helios with radiate crown, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΦΑΙ
Design
Bunch of grapes hanging from thyrsos.
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Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
2.53 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: M 3084

Provenience: Fonds général 1948

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-lemnos_089

Literature

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 983 (c. 300 BC)  ❐

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 61, nr. 288 (c. 276/261-167 BC.)  ❐

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 nr. 2487 (c. 289-190 BC.)  ❐

Boutin, Catalogue des monnaies grecques antiques de l'ancienne collection Pozzi: monnaies frappées en Europe, Maastricht 1979 p. 128, nr. 2365 ❐

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 61, nr. 11 (c. 281-166 BC.)  ❐

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