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cn coin 13668

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CN Type 20012 🔍

Mint
Myrina 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 386-276/261 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing helmet.
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Reverse
Design
Owl standing right, head facing, between two stars.
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Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
2.72 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: M 4544

Provenience: Fonds général 1957

Literature

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 63, nr. 1 (c. 375/350-294 BC.)  ❐

Penna, The Mintage of Lemnos, 1994 p. 42 ❐

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. 289-290 ❐

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 63, nr. 1 (c. 375/350-294 BC.)  ❐

Penna, The Mintage of Lemnos, 1994 p. 42 ❐

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. 289-290 ❐

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cn coin 13668, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_13668 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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