cn type 19907

Mint

Hephaistia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 276/261-167 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Bearded laureate head left.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Legend

ΗΦΑΙ

Design

Two torches.
go to the NLP result of this description

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 18 mm / Min: 16 mm

Average Weight

3.91 g (7x)

Axes

7 (2x) 9 (1x)

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 214, nr. 10 (On the obv. Hercules.) ❐

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. 286 (c. 276/261-167 BC, obv. addressed as Zeus.) ❐

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. 981 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 280, nr. 5 (On the obv. youthful head.) ❐

Penna, The Mintage of Lemnos, 1994 p. 41 (Head on the obverse indicated as Dionysus or Heracles.) ❐

editions

cn.hephaestia.1_ed.25 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19907, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19907 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]