cn coin 8273
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cn coin 8273

Connected to Type

CN Type 1666 🔍

CN Type 1667 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

230-175 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
20 mm
Weight
6.34 g
Owner

Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž (Ermitage), Sankt Petersburg, ru ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Erm. Mes.

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 242, nr. 500, pl. 53, pic. 500, annot. Keine völlige Übereinstimmung, sondern kleinere ikonographische Abweichungen. ❐

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 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 232-244, nr. 380-513, pl. 48-54, pic. 380-513 ❐

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 8273, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8273 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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