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Legend

Mint

Hoard

Findspot

cn type 19903

Mint

Hephaistia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 276/261-167 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse

Legend

ΗΦΑΙ

Design

Cantharus.
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Symbol

caduceus (position: on the left) torch (position: on the right)

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 19 mm / Min: 17 mm

Average Weight

4.05 g (2x)

Axes

12 (2x)

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. 982 (280-190 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. 60, nr. 287 (c. 276/261-167 BC) ❐

Souchleris, Numismatic Testimonies for the City of Hephaistia, Lemnos. New Coin Finds from the Theatre Excavations, 2006 p. 61, nr. 9 (281-166 BC) ❐

editions

cn.hephaestia.1_ed.30 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19903, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19903 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]