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CN Type 9139 🔍

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Imbros 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

276/261-167 BC (?)

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
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
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
2.23 g
Axis
5
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18263227

Provenience: 1873 Fox - Vorbesitzer Whittall

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

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 276, nr. 19 

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

Imhoof-Blumer, Friedrich, Münzen der Kleruchen auf Imbros 7, 1882 p. 146, nr. 1

Kroll and Walker, The Athenian Agora: 26. Results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 26. The Greek coins, Princeton, N. J 1993 p. 178, nr. 452

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

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cn coin 19423, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_19423 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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