cn coin 50475

Connected to Type

CN Type 645 🔍

Mint

Bisanthe 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Laureate head of Zeus, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΒΙΣΑΝΘΗΝΩΝ

Design

Eagle standing right on thunderbolt, wings spread.
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Metrology

Denomination

Bisanthe: nominal A 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

18.4 mm

Weight

5.24 g

Axis

Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: SHH 6667; Solidus Numismatik 23 (13.01.2018) 39

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 8, nr. 12-17, pl. 1 (Denomination A) ❐

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. 67, nr. 1362 (Denomination B. Hoover dates this type c. 178-168 BC to the time of the 3rd Macedonian War because the coins are similar to Perseus\' coinage.) ❐

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cn coin 50475, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50475 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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