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cn coin 18667

Connected to Type

CN Type 9139 🔍

Mint
Imbros 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

276/261-167 BC (?)

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of a goddess, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΙΜΒΡΟΥ
Design
Orthanes standing right, holding patera and branch, thymiaterion, right.
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Symbol
caduceus (position: top right)
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
2.49 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246606

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Public Commentary

Der weibliche Kopf auf der Vorderseite wird als Demeter oder Persephone interpretiert. Dieser Typ könnte auch früher 350-300 v. Chr. datiert werden. The female head on the obverse has been interpreted as Demeter or Persephone. Alternative dating for this type could be 350-300 BC

Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Amsterdam 1883 p. 48, nr. 45  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Choix de monnaies grecques de la collection de F. Imhoof-Blumer, Paris 1883 pl. I, pic. 10  ❐

Literature

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. 66, nr. 277 ❐

Ruhl, Imbros: Archäologie einer nordostägäischen Insel, Marburg 2018 p. 23-24, nr. Münztypus 1 ❐

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cn coin 18667, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_18667 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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