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cn coin 45762

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CN Type 19915 🔍

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
ΗΦ
Design
Nude Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus.
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Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
2.83 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_098

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. 984, pl. 19  (c. 300 BC.)  ❐

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. 984 (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. 285 (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. 12 (c. 281-166 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 45762, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45762 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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