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cn coin 25587

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CN Type 7165 🔍

Mint
Istros 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

c. 360/350-300 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 right.
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Symbol
ΔΙ (position: below) Ι (position: below)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
5.45 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41831286

Provenience: Fonds général.505

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Paris 279

Citation

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. 357, nr. 28  ❐

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 164, nr. 439/4  ❐

Literature

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 164, nr. 439 ❐

Dima, The Silver Coinage of Istros during the Hellenistic Period, Wetteren 2014 p. 26 ❐

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cn coin 25587, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_25587 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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