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cn coin 8079

Connected to Type

CN Type 1677 🔍

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

100-20 BC

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath and three long curls falling on his neck.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕΣΑΜ-ΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch; above, a leaf.
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Symbol
Δ (position: top left) Ω (position: top right)
Metrology
Denomination
heavy denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20.8 mm / Min: 19.9 mm
Weight
5.54 g
Axis
12
Owner

Coll. W. Holt, Sydney, au

Provenience: ex Savoca Numismatik, München, DE

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 390-395, nr. 11-37, 41-, pl. 127-129 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 390-395, nr. 8-61, pl. 127-129, pic. 8-61 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 8079, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8079 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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