cn type 19886
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cn type 19886

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Hephaistia 🔍  

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
ΗΦΑΙ
Design
Symbol
indistinct symbol (position: on the right)
Metrology
Material
Diameter
12 mm (1x)
Average Weight
1.67 g (2x)
Axes
9 (1x)
Public Commentary

On the reverse an indistinct symbol, a star?

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. 970-971 (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. 292 (c. 386-276/261 BC) 

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 32, nr. 3 (315-244 BC) 

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

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 281, nr. 17 (Bucranium?) 

editions

cn.hephaestia.1_ed.17  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19886, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19886 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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