cn coin 8650
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cn coin 8650

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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Overstrike
yes
Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΣΑΝ/ΘΗΝΩΝ
Design
Ethnic within grain ear wreath.
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Overstrike
yes
Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal A 🔍
Material
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
4.88 g
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 8438

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: BIS_2L_25_006o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 8, nr. 7, pl. 1 

Pellerin, Recueil de médailles de peuples et de villes, qui n'ont point encore été publiées, ou qui sont peu connues, Paris 1763 nr. 196 

Eckhel, Catalogus musei caesarei Vindobonensis numorum veterum, Wien 1779 nr. 65 

Wiczay, Musei Hedervarii in Hungaria numos antiquos Graecos et Latinos descripsit, anecdotos vel parum cognitos etiam cupreis tabulis, Vindobonae 1814 nr. 2275 

Sestini, Descrizione delle medaglie antiche Greche del Museo Hedervariano, Firenze 1828 p. 47, nr. 5 

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) 

Cite this record:

cn coin 8650, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8650 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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