cn coin 8730
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cn coin 8730

Connected to Type

CN Type 754 🔍

Mint
Bisanthe 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath?.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙ-Σ-Α-Ν
Design
Cantharus.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal C 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
1.10 g
Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: BIS_2L_25_054o/r

Citation

N. A. Mušmov, Antičnit moneti na Balkanskaja poluostrov i monetit na bulgarskit care, 1912 nr. 3199, pl. 18, pic. 9  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 11, nr. 58, pl. 2  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 11, nr. 58, pl. 3 ❐

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. 1371 ❐

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cn coin 8730, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8730 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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