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cn coin 1949

Connected to Type

CN Type 892 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357-338 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0004_V4 🔍
Design
Head of Demeter, left, wearing wreath of ears and earrings and necklace; below, grain.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0004_R4 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕ
Design
Two conjoined foreparts of prancing horses.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos (hemidrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
13 mm
Weight
2.43 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Prowe, früher Sammlung Philipsen

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 4, London

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 92, nr. 4.2, pl. 1, pic. 4/2  ❐

Brüder Egger, Sammlung des Herrn Theodor Prowe Moskau und aus anderem Besitz. Auktions-Katalog 46, Wien 1914 pl. 6, pic. 278  ❐

Hirsch, Sammlung Gustav Philipsen/Kopenhagen 25, München 1909, 1909 pl. 3, pic. 195  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 91 f., nr. 4-6, pl. 1 ❐

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cn coin 1949, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1949 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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