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cn coin 3813

Connected to Type

CN Type 1997 🔍

Mint
Kardia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357/346-309 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Kar_050_V50 🔍
Design
Head of Demeter, left, wearing wreath and triple-pendant earring.
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Reverse
Die
Kar_050_R50 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΚΑΡΔΙΑ; mon. Υ
Design
Lion crouching left, breaking spear in jaws; in exergue, grain corn and monogram. Ground line
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Metrology
Denomination
Kardia A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
8.72 g
Axis
4
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241053

Provenience: Von Herrn Dannenberg gekauft aus der Sammlung der Fürstin Handjéri.

Public Commentary

I. Tzvetkova identifies the symbol in the exergue at the right as an Y but it may be also an astragalos.

Citation

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 45, nr. 50  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 246, nr. 5  ❐

Literature

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 45, nr. 50 ❐

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. 112, nr. 1477 ❐

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cn coin 3813, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3813 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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