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cn coin 68932

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CN Type 447 🔍

Mint
Kardia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

357/346-309 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earring and necklace.
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Reverse
Design
Lion standing left, breaking spear in jaws.
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Symbol
indistinct symbol (position: in exergue)
Metrology
Denomination
Kardia A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
6.86 g
Axis
8
Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: M 1131

Provenience: G 58/13 (Welz 1966; ex Hess)

Literature

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 46, nr. 54 (c. 357/346-309 BC)  ❐

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 nr. 301 (2nd half of the 4th cent. BC)  ❐

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 ❐

Web Reference: https://mk-bochum.ikmk.net/object?id=ID1868 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 68932, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_68932 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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