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cn coin 1970

Connected to Type

CN Type 902 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

after 280 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0018_V18 🔍
Design
Head of Athena, left, wearing Attic helmet.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0019_R19 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ / ΜΗΝΑ
Design
Two conjoined foreparts of prancing horses.
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Persons

Magistrate: Mena… 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Perinthus: autonomous series 3 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
7.98 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 854

Provenience: Fonds général 1044

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 19, Paris 854

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 94, nr. 19.2  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1528, pl. 347, pic. 6  ❐

Literature

Mionnet, T.1. 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, Paris 1806 p. 401, nr. 257 ❐

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 94, nr. 18-19, pl. 1 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 162, nr. 1616 ❐

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cn coin 1970, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1970 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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