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cn coin 8401

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CN Type 1998 🔍

Mint
Kardia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

357/346-309 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter, left, wearing corn wreath, earring and necklace.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΚΑΡΔΙΑ
Design
Lion standing left, breaking spear in jaws; in exergue, grain and right of it, unclear symbol.
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Symbol
grain of barley (position: in exergue) indistinct symbol (position: in exergue)
Metrology
Denomination
Kardia A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19.9 mm
Weight
8.90 g
Axis
3
Owner

Münzkabinett und Antikensammlung der Stadt Winterthur, Winterthur, ch ❐

Provenience: 1887

Citation

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 45, nr. 51  ❐

Bloesch, Griechische Münzen in Winterthur, Winterthur 1987 nr. 1209  ❐

Literature

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 45, nr. 51 ❐

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. 1477 ❐

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cn coin 8401, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8401 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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