cn coin 50486

Connected to Type

CN Type 727 🔍

Mint

Bisanthe 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse

Legend

ΒΙΣΑΝ

Design

Owl.
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Metrology

Denomination

Bisanthe: nominal C 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

12 mm

Weight

1.31 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: Naumann 79 (07.07.2019) 53

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 11, nr. 46-51, pl. 2 ❐

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. 69, nr. 1372 (Dneomination D. Dated to 145-133 BC because of stilistic similarities to the Attalid and early Pergamon Provincial coinage.) ❐

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cn coin 50486, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50486 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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