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cn coin 45656

Connected to Type

CN Type 19913 🔍

Mint
Hephaistia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 276/261-167 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Youthful head (Apollo?) right, wearing laurel wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΦΑΙ
Design
Torch, between the two caps of the Dioscuri, each surmounted by star.
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Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
3.94 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: HPB,p31.2

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-lemnos_068

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 213, nr. 8  (Obv. Apollo.)  ❐

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. 61, nr. 293 (c. 276/261-167 BC, denomination D.)  ❐

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. 979 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 213, nr. 8 (Obv. Apollo.)  ❐

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cn coin 45656, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45656 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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