cn type 12888

Mint

Hephaistia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 386-276/261 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Legend

ΗΦΑΙ

Design

ram standing, r.
go to the NLP result of this description

Symbol

torch (position: on the right)

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 14.5 mm / Min: 11 mm

Average Weight

2.13 g (7x)

Axes

1 (1x) 3 (1x) 6 (3x) 10 (1x)

Literature

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. 969-971 (c. 300 BC) ❐

o. A., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Greece 7. The KIKPE Collection of Bronze Coins, Volume I, 2012 nr. 340, pl. 33 (c. 300 BC) ❐

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; without torch.) ❐

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

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 61, nr. 3 (346-258/256 BC) ❐

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

editions

cn.hephaestia.1_ed.19 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 12888, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12888 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]