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cn coin 1947

Connected to Type

CN Type 891 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357-338 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0003_V3 🔍
Design
Head of Demeter, left, wearing corn wreath, earring and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0003_R3 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ; mon. ΚΙΣ ·
Design
Two conjoined foreparts of prancing horses; ornated with acanthus leaves.
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Persons

Magistrate: Kis(sos?) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos (hemidrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
2.61 g
Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Oxf 1, n. 3

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 91, nr. 3, pl. 1, pic. 3  ❐

Wise, Nummorum antiquorum scriniis Bodleianis reconditorum catalogus, Oxford 1750 nr. 259, pl. 5, pic. 17  ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 396, nr. 1156  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 91, nr. 3, pl. 1 ❐

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cn coin 1947, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1947 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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