cn coin 8654
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cn coin 8654

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: 20.5 mm / Min: 19.5 mm
Weight
6.53 g
Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: BIS_2L_25_009o/r

Citation

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 p. 9, nr. 464  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 8, nr. 11, 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 8654, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8654 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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