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cn coin 45782

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CN Type 19902 🔍

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Hephaistia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 280-190 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Design
Two owls facing one another.
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Symbol
star (position: on the right) star (position: on the left)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
3.13 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-lemnos_107

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. 985, pl. 19  (c. 280-190 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. 985 (c. 280-190 BC)  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 280, nr. 6 ❐

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 61, nr. 13 (c. 281-166 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 45782, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45782 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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