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Legend

Mint

Hoard

Findspot

cn type 19891

Mint

Hephaistia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 386-276/261 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse

Legend

ΗΦΑΙ

Design

Owl standing facing.
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Symbol

olive-branch (position: on the left)

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 12.5 mm / Min: 12 mm

Average Weight

1.84 g (4x)

Axes

5 (1x) 11 (1x) 12 (1x)

Literature

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 61, nr. 290 (386-276/261 BC, torch, right.) ❐

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 p. 140, nr. 2479, pl. 95 (c. 300 BC) ❐

editions

cn.hephaestia.1_ed.11 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19891, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19891 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]