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cn coin 59571

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CN Type 22878 🔍

Mint
Istros 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

c. 360/350-300 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Two young male heads, facing, side by side, right one inverted.
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Reverse
Legend
ΙΣΤΡΙΗ
Design
Sea-eagle on dolphin standing right.
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Symbol
Δ (position: below)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
5.58 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18316831

Provenience: Prokesch-Osten 1875

Citation

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 164, nr. 441/2  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 53, nr. 14  ❐

Literature

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 164, nr. 441 ❐

Zaginajlo and Grebenkin, Klassifikacija rannich serebrjanych monet Istrii. (Russ.) [Klassifikation der frühen Silbermünzen von Histria.] 14, 1984 p. 28ff. ❐

Dima, The Silver Coinage of Istros during the Hellenistic Period, Wetteren 2014 p. 26 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 199 ❐

Web Reference: https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?id=18316831 ❐

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cn coin 59571, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_59571 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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