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cn type 645

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Bisanthe 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Zeus, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙΣΑΝΘΗΝΩΝ
Design
Eagle standing right on thunderbolt, wings spread.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 17 mm
Average Weight
4.95 g (6x)
Axes
12 (2x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 8, nr. 12-17, pl. 1  (Denomination A)  ❐

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. 67, nr. 1362  (Denomination B. Hoover dates this type c. 178-168 BC to the time of the 3rd Macedonian War because the coins are similar to Perseus\' coinage.)  ❐

editions

cn.bisanthe.1_ed.2  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 645, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/645 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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