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cn coin 50506

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CN Type 2237 🔍

Mint
Orthagoria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 310-290 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Artemis, right, wearing necklace and earrings; quiver behind.
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Reverse
Legend
ΟΡΘΑΓΟΡΕΩΝ
Design
Helmet, facing, surmounted by star.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: below)
Metrology
Denomination
stater (double siglos, didrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
10.12 g
Axis
9
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: BNK,G.121

Provenience: Donated by: Bank of England, 1877

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, Le monnayage d'Orthagoreia 6, 2004 p. 51-53, pic. 2a ❐

Gaebler, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands 3, 1906 p. 92, nr. 1+2, pl. 18, pic. 21+22 ❐

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 193-204 (Denomination: stater.)  ❐

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cn coin 50506, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50506 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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