cn type 19899
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cn type 19899

Mint
Hephaistia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 276/261-167 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Male head wearing taenia, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΦΑΙ
Design
Metrology
Material
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 17 mm
Average Weight
4.33 g (5x)
Axes
3 (2x) 4 (1x) 6 (1x) 9 (1x)
Literature

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. 60, nr. 283 (c. 276/261-167 BC; on the rev. Antiochus III.?) 

Penna, The Mintage of Lemnos, 1994 p. 41 (Antiochus I on the rev.) 

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 61, nr. 3 (281-258/256 BC; Seleucus, Antiochus I. dnd III.) 

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. 977 (c. 280-190 BC, Antiochus III.) 

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 281, nr. 14-15

editions

cn.hephaestia.1_ed.37  🔍

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cn type 19899, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19899 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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