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cn coin 8669

Connected to Type

CN Type 647 🔍

Mint
Bisanthe 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΣΑΝ-ΘΗΝΩΝ
Design
Tripod. Ground line.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal B 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
3.30 g
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 8435

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: BIS_2L_25_024o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 9, nr. 28, pl. 2  ❐

Wiczay, Musei Hedervarii in Hungaria numos antiquos Graecos et Latinos descripsit, anecdotos vel parum cognitos etiam cupreis tabulis, Vindobonae 1814 nr. 2272  ❐

Sestini, Descrizione delle medaglie antiche Greche del Museo Hedervariano, Firenze 1828 p. 46, nr. 1  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 9, nr. 25-30, pl. 2 (Denomination B)  ❐

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. 68, nr. 1364 (Denomination C/D)  ❐

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cn coin 8669, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8669 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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