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cn coin 50508

Connected to Type

CN Type 2238 🔍

Mint
Orthagoria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 348/347-290 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Bust of Artemis facing, head left, wearing necklace and earrings; quiver at her right shoulder.
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Reverse
Legend
ΟΡΘΑΓΟΡΕΩΝ
Design
Helmet, facing, surmounted by star.
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Metrology
Denomination
Half Stater (hemisiglos, hemidrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
2.60 g
Axis
5
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: TC,p98.1.Ort

Literature

Gaebler, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands 3, 1906 p. 93, nr. 3, pl. 18, pic. 23 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, Le monnayage d'Orthagoreia 6, 2004 p. 51-52, pic. 2b ❐

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: fifth.)  ❐

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cn coin 50508, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50508 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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