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Hoard

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cn type 19908

Mint

Hephaistia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 276/261-167 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Youthful head (Apollo?) right, wearing laurel wreath.
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Reverse

Legend

ΗΦΑΙ

Design

Torch, between the two caps of the Dioscuri, each surmounted by star.
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Symbol

trident (position: on the right)

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 16 mm / Min: 12 mm

Average Weight

1.57 g (4x)

Axes

1 (3x) 12 (1x)

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 213, nr. 8 (On the obv. Apollo.) ❐

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. 293 (c. 276/261-167 BC, denomination D.) ❐

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. 980, pl. 19 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 280, nr. 4 (Apollo.) ❐

editions

cn.hephaestia.1_ed.38 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19908, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19908 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]