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cn coin 8655

Connected to Type

CN Type 645 🔍

Mint
Bisanthe 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Zeus, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙ-ΣΑΝ/ΘΗ-ΝΩΝ
Design
Eagle standing right on thunderbolt, wings open.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
5.48 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: Egger 46, 1914, Taf. 5,195

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: BIS_2L_25_010o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 8, nr. 12, pl. 1  ❐

Brüder Egger, Sammlung des Herrn Theodor Prowe Moskau und aus anderem Besitz. Auktions-Katalog 46, Wien 1914 pl. 5, pic. 195  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 8, nr. 12-17, 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. 1362 (Denomination B. Hoover dates this type c. 178-168 BC to the time of the 3rd Macedonian War because the coins are similar to Perseus\' coinage.)  ❐

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cn coin 8655, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8655 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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