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cn coin 45329

Connected to Type

CN Type 19876 🔍

Mint
Myrina 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 300 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΥΡΙ
Design
Owl standing right, head facing.
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Symbol
olive-branch (position: on the left)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 18.8 mm / Min: 16.6 mm
Weight
4.33 g
Axis
2
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1866,1201.801

Provenience: James Woodhouse, 1866

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-myrina_004

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 214, nr. 4 (Without olive-branch; after Alexander the Great.)  ❐

Penna, The Mintage of Lemnos, 1994 p. 40-41 (Last quarter 3rd cent. BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 45329, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45329 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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