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cn coin 45662

Connected to Type

CN Type 19908 🔍

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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Symbol
trident (position: on the right)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
13 mm
Weight
1.55 g
Axis
12
Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-lemnos_072

Citation

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. 980, pl. 19  (c. 280-190 BC.)  ❐

Literature

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

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. 980, pl. 19 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 280, nr. 4 (Apollo.)  ❐

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cn coin 45662, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45662 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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