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cn coin 3139

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CN Type 486 🔍

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Krithote 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 350-281 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter facing, slightly right, hair in korymbos, wearing earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse {<ΚΡΙΘΟΥ>}/ΣΙΩΝ
Design
Grain within corn wreath.
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Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
7.91 g
Axis
3
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18214998

Provenience: \'Von S. Egger in Pesth. Auswahl aus der Mihanovichschen zu Salonichi gemachten Sammlung.\'

Citation

Boissevain, Beschreibung der griechischen autonomen Münzen im Besitze der Kön. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1912 p. 262, nr. 1  ❐

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 194, nr. 1 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 886 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Bibliographie zur antiken Numismatik Thrakiens und Mösiens, Berlin 1999 nr. 1447-1452 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 194, nr. 1 ❐

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. 115, nr. 1488 (Denomination B.)  ❐

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cn coin 3139, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3139 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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