cn type 19866

Mint

Myrina 🔍

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

ΜΥΡΙ

Design

Owl standing facing.
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Symbol

torch (position: on the left)

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 14 mm / Min: 12 mm

Average Weight

1.77 g (3x)

Axes

3 (1x) 5 (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. 990 (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. 68, nr. 299 (c. 386-276/261 BC) ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 214, nr. 3 (Without torch.) ❐

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 nr. 2490 ❐

editions

cn.myrina_lemni.1_ed.2 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19866, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19866 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]