cn type 20012

Mint

Myrina 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 386-276/261 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, right, wearing helmet.
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Reverse

Design

Owl standing right, head facing, between two stars.
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Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 17.6 mm / Min: 15.3 mm

Average Weight

2.72 g (1x)

Literature

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 63, nr. 1 (c. 375/350-294 BC.) ❐

Penna, The Mintage of Lemnos, 1994 p. 42 ❐

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. 289-290 ❐

editions

cn.myrina_lemni.1_ed.6 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 20012, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20012 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]