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cn coin 66385

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CN Type 23061 🔍

Mint
Amisos 🔍  
Date

2. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hera right, wearing turreted stephane.
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Reverse
Legend
ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ
Design
Owl facing with spread wings standing on shield.
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Symbol
hippocamp (position: on the left) sword in sheath (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
13 mm
Weight
1.72 g
Axis
12
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Provenience: Fonds général 197 (ex Grand Duke)

Citation

Dalaison, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France 7. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Paphlagonie, Pont et Arménie Mineure., Bordeaux 2015 p. 184-185, nr. 1171, pic. 1171  ❐

Literature

Price, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum 9 The British Museum 1. The Black Sea, 1993 nr. 1118-1119 (4th cent. BC)  ❐

Dalaison, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France 7. Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Paphlagonie, Pont et Arménie Mineure., Bordeaux 2015 p. 184-185, nr. 1171-1173 (last third of the 3rd cent.?)  ❐

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 664-665 (3rd-2nd cent. BC)  ❐

Web Reference: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8556208j.r=Amisos%201%2C72?rk=21459;2# ❐

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cn coin 66385, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_66385 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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