cn coin 45431

Connected to Type

CN Type 19898 🔍

Mint
Hephaistia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 276/261-167 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Male head wearing taenia, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΦΑΙ
Design
Symbol
torch (position: on the left)
Metrology
Material
Weight
5.86 g
Axis
1
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1922,0317.14

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: cn-lemnos_053

Citation

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 nr. 2482  (c. 289-190 BC.) 

Literature

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. 60, nr. 282 (c. 276/261-167 BC; on the rev. Antiochus III.?, star before ram.) 

Penna, The Mintage of Lemnos, 1994 p. 41 (Antiochus I on the rev.) 

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 61, nr. 3 (281-258/256 BC; Seleucus, Antiochus I. dnd III.) 

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 nr. 2482 (c. 289-190 BC) 

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. 976 (c. 280-190 BC, star before ram.) 

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cn coin 45431, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45431 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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