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cn coin 18854

Connected to Type

CN Type 19903 🔍

Mint
Hephaistia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 276/261-167 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΗΦ–ΑΙ
Design
Cantharus.
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Symbol
caduceus (position: on the left) torch (position: on the right)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
3.91 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18250575

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-lemnos_085

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. 982 (280-190 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. 60, nr. 287 (c. 276/261-167 BC)  ❐

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 61, nr. 9 (281-166 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 18854, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_18854 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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