cn coin 43949

Connected to Type

CN Type 19872 🔍

Mint

Myrina 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 386-276/261 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Helmeted head of Athena facing three-quarters to left.
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Reverse

Legend

Μ–Υ–Ρ–Ι

Design

Owl standing right, head facing.
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Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

3.86 g

Axis

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1844,0425.1778

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 214, nr. 1 (c. 400BC-301 BC) ❐

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 214, nr. 1 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 987 (c. 300 BC.) ❐

Bloesch, Griechische Münzen in Winterthur, Winterthur 1987 p. 119, nr. 1284 (c. 300 BC) ❐

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 68, nr. 298 (c. 386-276/261 BC) ❐

Penna, The Mintage of Lemnos, 1994 p. 40 (c. 314-301 BC.) ❐

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cn coin 43949, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_43949 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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