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Mint

Hoard

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cn type 19914

Mint

Hephaistia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 276/261-167 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Diademed (?) male, youthful head, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΗΦΑΙ

Design

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

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 18 mm / Min: 16 mm

Average Weight

4.01 g (3x)

Axes

1 (1x) 12 (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. 285 (c. 276/261-167 BC, obv. Apollo.) ❐

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. 979 ❐

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

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 280, nr. 3 ❐

editions

cn.hephaestia.1_ed.26 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19914, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19914 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]