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cn coin 8270

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
Legend reverse 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
19 mm
Weight
5.66 g
Owner

F. Bettermann, Gießen, de

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Bettermann 40 4,83 g, ↑↑

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 228, nr. 336, pl. 46, pic. 336 ❐

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 8270, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8270 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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