cn coin 45672

Connected to Type

CN Type 19903 🔍

Mint

Hephaistia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 276/261-167 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse

Legend

ΗΦΑΙ

Design

Cantharus.
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Symbol

caduceus (position: on the left) torch (position: on the right)

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

19 mm

Owner

Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž (Ermitage), Sankt Petersburg, ru ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-lemnos_082

Literature

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. 982 (280-190 BC) ❐

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. 287 (c. 276/261-167 BC) ❐

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 61, nr. 9 (281-166 BC) ❐

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cn coin 45672, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45672 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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