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cn coin 8692

Connected to Type

CN Type 727 🔍

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/Σ-Α//Ν
Design
Owl standing right, head facing. Ground line.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal C 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
10.5 mm
Weight
1.34 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: M 6522

Provenience: Fonds général 279

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: BIS_2L_25_047o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 11, nr. 51, pl. 2  ❐

Foville, Monnaies Grecques du Cabinet des Médailles, 1911 p. 295, nr. 5  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 11, nr. 46-51, pl. 2 ❐

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. 69, nr. 1372 (Dneomination D. Dated to 145-133 BC because of stilistic similarities to the Attalid and early Pergamon Provincial coinage.)  ❐

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cn coin 8692, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8692 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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