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cn coin 68997

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CN Type 7211 🔍

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 left.
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Symbol
エ (position: Below tail)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
5.89 g
Axis
12
Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: M 1141

Provenience: G 59/3 (Welz 1966; ex Ball Nachf. [31.07.1933])

Literature

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 163, nr. 429 ❐

Dima, The Silver Coinage of Istros during the Hellenistic Period, Wetteren 2014 p. 24, pl. 4, pic. 1-6 (Group IV-ii (c. 340/330-313 BC))  ❐

Zaginajlo and Grebenkin, Klassifikacija rannich serebrjanych monet Istrii. (Russ.) [Klassifikation der frühen Silbermünzen von Histria.] 14, 1984 p. 28 ff. ((Group IV, c. 360/350-late 4th cent. BC))  ❐

Web Reference: https://mk-bochum.ikmk.net/object?id=ID1522 ❐

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cn coin 68997, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_68997 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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