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cn coin 25586

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CN Type 7158 🔍

Mint
Istros 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

c. 340/330-240 BC

Classical/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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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: below)
Symbol
Η (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
5.37 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41831285

Provenience: Fonds général.504

Literature

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 163, nr. 431 ❐

Dima, The Silver Coinage of Istros during the Hellenistic Period, Wetteren 2014 p. 24, nr. 1, pl. VI, pic. 1 ❐

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cn coin 25586, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_25586 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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