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cn type 7211

Mint
Istros 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

c. 360/350-300 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Two young male heads, facing, side by side, right one inverted.
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Reverse
Legend
ΙΣΤΡΙΗ
Design
Sea-eagle on dolphin standing left.
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Symbol
エ (position: Below tail)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm (1x)
Average Weight
5.76 g (2x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Citation

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 163, nr. 429  ❐

Dima, The Silver Coinage of Istros during the Hellenistic Period, Wetteren 2014 p. 24, pl. 4, pic. 1-6  (Group IV-ii (c. 340/330-313 BC))  ❐

Zaginajlo and Grebenkin, Klassifikacija rannich serebrjanych monet Istrii. (Russ.) [Klassifikation der frühen Silbermünzen von Histria.] 14, 1984 p. 28 ff.  ((Group IV, c. 360/350-late 4th cent. BC))  ❐

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cn type 7211, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/7211 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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