cn coin 8269

Connected to Type

CN Type 1666 🔍

Mint

Mesembria 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

230-215 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of an amazon, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΜΕΤΑΜ-ΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ

Design

Athena (Alkis) advancing left, holding spear in raised right hand and shield in left hand.
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Metrology

Denomination

heavy denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

21 mm

Weight

5.79 g

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Irvar Mes.

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 220, nr. 229, pl. 52, pic. 229 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 212-232, nr. 129-379, pl. 38-48, pic. 129-379 ❐

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. 145, nr. 1575 ❐

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cn coin 8269, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8269 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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