cn coin 50466

Connected to Type

CN Type 653 🔍

Mint

Bisanthe 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Dionysus, right, quiver behind.
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Reverse

Legend

ΒΙ

Design

Vine branch with bunches of grape on right and on left.
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Metrology

Denomination

Bisanthe: nominal B 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

12 mm

Weight

1.61 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Numismatik Naumann (formerly Gitbud & Naumann) eA 117 (05.06.2022) lot 140

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 10, nr. 37, pl. 2 (Denomination B) ❐

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. 1365 (Denomination C/D. For stilistic reasons dated to the 2nd c. BC.) ❐

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cn coin 50466, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50466 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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