cn coin 50443

Connected to Type

CN Type 655 🔍

Mint

Bisanthe 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse

Legend

ΒΙ(ΣΑΝ)

Design

Ethnic within grain ear wreath.
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Metrology

Denomination

Bisanthe: nominal C 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

13 mm

Weight

2.03 g

Axis

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Roma Numismatics Limited eA 83 (06.05.2021) lot 162. Ex Thrax Collection (formed in London between 1991 and 2018). = Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 58, 20 June 2019, lot 513 = Numismatik Naumann, Auction 49, 8 January 2017, lot 67.

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 10, nr. 38-41 ❐

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. 68, nr. 1367 ❐

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cn coin 50443, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50443 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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