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cn coin 18357

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CN Type 19907 🔍

Mint
Hephaistia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 276/261-167 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Bearded laureate head left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΦΑΙ
Design
Two torches.
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Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
4.06 g
Axis
7
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18235377

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-lemnos_075

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 214, nr. 10 (On the obv. Hercules.)  ❐

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. 60, nr. 286 (c. 276/261-167 BC, obv. addressed as Zeus.)  ❐

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. 981 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 280, nr. 5 (On the obv. youthful head.)  ❐

Penna, The Mintage of Lemnos, 1994 p. 41 (Head on the obverse indicated as Dionysus or Heracles.)  ❐

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cn coin 18357, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_18357 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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