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cn coin 8391

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CN Type 453 🔍

Mint
Kardia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357/346-309 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter, left, wearing corn wreath and earring.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΚΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Lion standing right, breaking spear in jaws.
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Metrology
Denomination
Kardia A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
6.49 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: EH,p239.2.Car

Provenience: Acquisition name, Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin

Citation

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 46, nr. 59  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 189, nr. 9  ❐

Literature

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 46, nr. 59 ❐

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cn coin 8391, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8391 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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