cn coin 19450
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cn coin 19450

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CN Type 9138 🔍

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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.
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Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
Diameter
13 mm
Weight
1.75 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18263273

Provenience: 1905/1410 - Vorbesitzer Fredrich

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.

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

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. 4

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

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cn coin 19450, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_19450 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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