cn coin 50438

Connected to Type

CN Type 491 🔍

Mint

Krithote 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 350-281 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse

Legend

ΚΡΙ

Design

Grain.
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Metrology

Denomination

medium denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

5.55 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1845,1217.137

Provenience: Purchased from: Maximilian John Borrell, 1845

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 194, nr. 2 ❐

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 888 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 115, nr. 1489 (Denomination C.) ❐

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cn coin 50438, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50438 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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