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cn type 455

Mint
Kardia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357/346-309 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter, left, wearing corn wreath and earring.
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Reverse
Legend
ΚΑΡΔΙΑΝΟΣ
Design
Lion standing left, breaking spear in jaws.
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Symbol
grain of barley (position: in exergue)
Metrology
Denomination
Kardia A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 21 mm / Min: 20 mm
Average Weight
8.15 g (7x)
Axes
4 (1x) 5 (1x) 6 (3x) 9 (1x) 12 (1x)
Citation

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 46, nr. 64-71  ❐

Literature

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. 112, nr. 1477 ❐

editions

cn.cardia.2_ed.6  🔍

cn.cardia.1_ed.5  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 455, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/455 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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