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cn coin 1977

Connected to Type

CN Type 2039 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

after 280 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0027_V27 🔍
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
21 mm
Weight
5.73 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 853

Provenience: Fonds général 1043

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 27, Paris 853

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 95, nr. 27, pl. 1, pic. 27  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1528, pl. 347, pic. 7  ❐

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. 256  ❐

Hennin, Manuel de numismatique ancienne, Luxemborg 1872 pl. 16, pic. 7  ❐

Lenormant, Nouvelle galerie mythologique, 1850 p. 115, pl. 26, pic. 5  ❐

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 1977, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1977 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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