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cn coin 51455

Connected to Type

CN Type 338 🔍

Mint
Alopekonnesos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 400-300 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus/of a maenad, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΛΩ
Design
Cantharus.
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Symbol
club (position: )
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
2.61 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1849,1119.28

Provenience: Purchased from: Harry Osborn Cureton, 1849

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 188, nr. 1  ❐

Literature

Yarkin, The Coinage of Alopeconnesus in Thracian Chersonesus 187, 1978 p. 3, nr. 1-7, pl. I, pic. 1,7 ❐

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cn coin 51455, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51455 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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