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Mint

Hoard

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cn type 19902

Mint

Hephaistia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 280-190 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse

Design

Two owls facing one another.
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Symbol

star (position: on the right) star (position: on the left)

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 18 mm / Min: 16 mm

Average Weight

3.21 g (4x)

Axes

1 (1x) 11 (2x) 12 (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. 985 (c. 280-190 BC) ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 280, nr. 6 ❐

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 61, nr. 13 (c. 281-166 BC.) ❐

editions

cn.hephaestia.1_ed.23 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19902, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19902 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]