cn coin 6720
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cn coin 6720

Connected to Type

CN Type 2238 🔍

Mint
Orthagoria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 348/7-290 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Bust of Artemis facing, head left, wearing necklace and earrings; quiver at her right shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΟΡΘΑΓΟ-ΡΕΩΝ
Design
Helmet, facing, surmounted by star and with a feather on each side and cheek-guards. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
Half Stater (hemisiglos, hemidrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
2.43 g
Axis
2
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18247777

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Public Commentary

Die Lokalisierung der Münzstätte ist umstritten. Sie wurde früher in Makedonien vermutet, doch verweist bereits AMNG III-2 92 auf Thrakien, genauer die Gegend um Maroneia.

Citation

Gaebler, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands 3, 1906 p. 93, nr. 3  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, Le monnayage d'Orthagoreia 6, 2004 p. 51-54 ❐

Gaebler, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands 3, 1906 p. 93, nr. 3, pl. 18, pic. 23 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, Le monnayage d'Orthagoreia 6, 2004 p. 51-52, pic. 2b ❐

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 193-204 (Denomination: fifth.)  ❐

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cn coin 6720, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6720 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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