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cn type 20029

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
Symbol
branch (position: on the left)
Metrology
Material
Diameter
Max: 17.5 mm / Min: 17 mm
Average Weight
3.90 g (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. 291 (c. 386-276/261 BC; ram, left.) 

Penna, The Mintage of Lemnos, 1994 p. 41 (Mid 4th cent. BC) 

Bloesch, Griechische Münzen in Winterthur, Winterthur 1987 p. 118, nr. 1275 (300 BC) 

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 968, pl. 19 (c. 300 BC.) 

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 62, nr. 3 (c. 346-258/256 BC.) 

editions

cn.hephaestia.1_ed.18  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 20029, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20029 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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