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cn coin 8677

Connected to Type

CN Type 653 🔍

Mint
Bisanthe 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath; quiver behind.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Β-Ι
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch with small grape on right and left side.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal B 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15 mm / Min: 12 mm
Weight
1.72 g
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 8437

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: BIS_2L_25_032o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 10, nr. 37, pl. 2  ❐

Rasche and Heyne, Lexicon Vniversae Rei Nvmariae Vetervm Et Praecipve Graecorvm Ac Romanorvm : Cvm Observationibvs Antiquariis, Geographicis, Chronologicis, Historicis, Criticis Et Passim Cvm Explicatione Monogrammatvm, Lipsiae 1785 p. 1517  ❐

Rasche and Heyne, Lexicon Vniversae Rei Nvmariae Vetervm Et Praecipve Graecorvm Ac Romanorvm : Cvm Observationibvs Antiquariis, Geographicis, Chronologicis, Historicis, Criticis Et Passim Cvm Explicatione Monogrammatvm, Lipsiae 1785 p. 1538  ❐

Wiczay, Musei Hedervarii in Hungaria numos antiquos Graecos et Latinos descripsit, anecdotos vel parum cognitos etiam cupreis tabulis, Vindobonae 1814 p. 2274, pl. 8, pic. 174  ❐

Sestini, Descrizione delle medaglie antiche Greche del Museo Hedervariano, Firenze 1828 p. 47, nr. 4  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 10, nr. 37, 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. 1365 (Denomination C/D. For stilistic reasons dated to the 2nd c. BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 8677, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8677 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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