cn coin 69281

Connected to Type

CN Type 19866 🔍

Mint

Myrina 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 386-276/261 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse

Legend

ΜΥΡΙ

Design

Owl standing facing.
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Symbol

torch (position: on the left)

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

12 mm

Weight

1.49 g

Axis

Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: M 1129

Provenience: G 58/11 (Welz 1966, ex Button [22.04.1954])

Literature

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 990 (c. 300 BC) ❐

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 68, nr. 299 (c. 386-276/261 BC) ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 214, nr. 3 (Without torch.) ❐

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 nr. 2490 ❐

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cn coin 69281, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_69281 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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