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cn coin 51453

Connected to Type

CN Type 393 🔍

Mint
Alopekonnesos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

300-250 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Godess (Persephone/Demeter?) with laurel wreath (or ears of grain?), right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΛΩΠΕΚΟΝ
Design
Cantharus.
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Symbol
grape (position: at the bottom right) fox (position: at the bottom left) grain of barley (position: above)
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
3.52 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1874,0506.19

Provenience: Purchased from: P Lambros, 1874

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 188, nr. 3  ❐

Literature

Yarkin, The Coinage of Alopeconnesus in Thracian Chersonesus 187, 1978 p. 5, nr. 55-56, pl. I ❐

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cn coin 51453, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51453 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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