cn coin 8647
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cn coin 8647

Connected to Type

CN Type 644 🔍

Mint
Bisanthe 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΣΑΝ/ΘΗΝΩΝ
Design
Ethnic within grain ear wreath.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 19 mm
Weight
5.90 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Lambros

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: BIS_2L_25_001o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 8, nr. 1, pl. 1  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 8, nr. 1-11, pl. 1 (Denomination A)  ❐

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. 67, nr. 1361 (Denomination B)  ❐

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cn coin 8647, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8647 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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