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cn coin 8679

Connected to Type

CN Type 655 🔍

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 ΒΙ
Design
Ethnic within grain ear wreath, bound at bottom.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal C 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
0.94 g
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 34961

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: BIS_2L_25_034o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 10, nr. 38.2, pl. 2  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 10, nr. 38-41 ❐

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. 1367 ❐

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cn coin 8679, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8679 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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