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cn coin 19425

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CN Type 9142 🔍

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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
pendant (position: top right)
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
2.88 g
Axis
5
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18263232

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Public Commentary

Der weibliche Kopf auf der Vorderseite wird als Demeter oder Persephone interpretiert. The female head on the obverse has been interpreted as Demeter or Persephone.

Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Amsterdam 1883 p. 48, nr. 46 

Literature

Imhoof-Blumer, Friedrich, Münzen der Kleruchen auf Imbros 7, 1882 p. 147, nr. 2

Peter, Stephanos nomismatikos: Edith Schönert-Geiss zum 65. Geburtstag, Berlin 1998 p. 296, nr. 1-4

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

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 211, 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

Imhoof-Blumer, Friedrich, Münzen der Kleruchen auf Imbros 7, 1882 p. 147, nr. 2

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

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cn coin 19425, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_19425 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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