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cn coin 8693

Connected to Type

CN Type 716 🔍

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
Vine branch with bunches of grape on right and on left.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal C 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 216

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: BIS_2L_25_049o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 11, nr. 53  ❐

Lischine, Collection C. N. Lischine, Monnaies greques. Thrace, Macon 1902, 1902 nr. 216  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 11, nr. 52-53, 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. 1370 (Denomination D, dated for stilistic reasons to the 2nd c. BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 8693, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8693 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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