cn coin 45757

Connected to Type

CN Type 19912 🔍

Mint
Hephaistia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 276/261-167 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Helios with radiate crown, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΦΑΙ
Design
Bunch of grapes hanging from thyrsos.
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Metrology
Material
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
2.68 g
Axis
6
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1890,0702.3

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: cn-lemnos_090

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. 983 (c. 300 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. 61, nr. 288 (c. 276/261-167 BC.) 

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 nr. 2487 (c. 289-190 BC.) 

Boutin, Catalogue des monnaies grecques antiques de l'ancienne collection Pozzi: monnaies frappées en Europe, Maastricht 1979 p. 128, nr. 2365

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 61, nr. 11 (c. 281-166 BC.) 

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cn coin 45757, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45757 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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