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cn coin 3678

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CN Type 648 🔍

Mint
Bisanthe 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Β-Ι/Σ-Α//Ν
Design
Owl standing right, head facing. Ground line.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal B 🔍
Material
Diameter
13 mm
Weight
2.90 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18239073

Public Commentary

In the publication by E. Schönert-Geiss is the wrong weight given, 1.9g instead of 2.9g, caused by that error the coin has been given to Nominal C but would be correctly given to the Athena-Owl-Series os Nominal B.

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 197, nr. 1 

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 138, nr. 3 

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 11, nr. 48 

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 9-10, nr. 31-36, pl. 2 (Denomination B) 

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. 68, nr. 1366 (Denomination C/D. This type dated 145-133 BC because of the appearance of the A and the stilistic similarities with Attalid and early Pergamon Provincial coinage.) 

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cn coin 3678, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3678 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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