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cn coin 1976

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CN Type 2039 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

after 280 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0025_V25 🔍
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0026_R26 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ/ΘΙΩΝ
Design
Two conjoined foreparts of prancing horses.
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Metrology
Denomination
Perinthus: autonomous series 4 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 22 mm / Min: 20 mm
Weight
5.46 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 26, London 3

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 95, nr. 26  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 147, nr. 1  ❐

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

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 94-95, nr. 22-27 ❐

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. 1617 ❐

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cn coin 1976, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1976 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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