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cn coin 8172

Connected to Type

CN Type 272 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

450-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Crested Corinthian helmet facing.
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Symbol
A (position: at the bottom left) Λ (position: at the bottom right)
Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Μ-Ε-Ͳ-Α
Design
Radiate wheel with four spokes containing Ethnic.
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Metrology
Denomination
Diobol 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
1.30 g
Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Kph NE 1,19

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 80, nr. 23 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 652-657, pl. 12, pic. 652-657 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 79-80, nr. 13-25, pl. 2, pic. 13-25 ❐

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cn coin 8172, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8172 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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