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cn coin 45636

Connected to Type

CN Type 8729 🔍

Mint
Imbros 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 386-276/261 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
ΙΜΒΡΟΥ
Design
Owl standing right.
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Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
0.60 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1847,0619.73

Provenience: Joseph Curt

Citation

Ruhl, Imbros: Archäologie einer nordostägäischen Insel, Marburg 2018 p. 280, nr. 3.3  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 211, nr. 5  ❐

Literature

Ruhl, Imbros: Archäologie einer nordostägäischen Insel, Marburg 2018 p. 26, nr. 3 ❐

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. 66, nr. 278 (Wrongly described with wreath on the reverse.)  ❐

Web Reference: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1847-0619-73 ❐

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cn coin 45636, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45636 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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