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cn coin 21451

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CN Type 21752 🔍

Mint
Istros 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

c. 340/330-240 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Two young male heads, facing, side by side, right one inverted.
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Reverse
Legend
ΙΣΤΡΙΗ
Design
Sea-eagle on dolphin standing left.
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Symbol
ΦΥ (position: below)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
5.13 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41740949

Provenience: 2549; Salomon de Rothschild 431

Literature

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 nr. 425 ❐

Price, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum 9 The British Museum 1. The Black Sea, 1993 nr. 256 ❐

Dima, The Silver Coinage of Istros during the Hellenistic Period, Wetteren 2014 p. 26, nr. 1, pl. XIX, pic. 1-7 ❐

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cn coin 21451, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21451 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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