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cn coin 8673

Connected to Type

CN Type 648 🔍

Mint
Bisanthe 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Β-Ι
Design
Owl standing right, head facing. Ground line.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal B 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Owner

K. N. Lishin (C. N. Lischine), , ru

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 183

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: BIS_2L_25_028o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 9, nr. 33, pl. 2  ❐

Lischine, Collection C. N. Lischine, Monnaies greques. Thrace, Macon 1902, 1902 pl. 3, pic. 183  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 9-10, nr. 31-36, 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. 1366 (Denomination C/D. This type dated 145-133 BC because of the appearance of the A and the stilistic similarities with Attalid and early Pergamon Provincial coinage.)  ❐

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cn coin 8673, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8673 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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