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cn coin 646

Connected to Type

CN Type 1968 🔍

Mint
Kardia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357/346-309 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Kar_071_V71 🔍
Design
Head of Demeter, left, wearing wreath and earring.
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Reverse
Die
Kar_071_R71 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΚΑΡΔΙΑ
Design
Lion crouching left, breaking spear in jaws; in exergue, grain. Ground line.
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Metrology
Denomination
Kardia A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
9.05 g
Axis
6
Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: A. O. van Lennep, Consul general and numismatist at Smyrna, 1910

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Kphgn 23

Citation

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen pl. 17, pic. 863  ❐

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 46, nr. 71  ❐

Literature

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 45, nr. 33-38 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 112, nr. 1477 ❐

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cn coin 646, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_646 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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