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cn coin 8394

Connected to Type

CN Type 2002 🔍

Mint
Kardia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357/346-309 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter facing, slightly turned left, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΚΑΡΔΙΑ
Design
Lion standing left;  under the lion, grain.
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Metrology
Denomination
Kardia A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
5.23 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1851,0503.181

Provenience: Purchased from: James Millingen (executors) Acquisition date: 1851

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 190, nr. 11  ❐

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 46, nr. 76  ❐

Literature

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 46-47, nr. 76-81 ❐

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. 112, nr. 1478 ❐

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cn coin 8394, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8394 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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