cn type 447

Mint

Kardia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

357/346-309 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earring and necklace.
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Reverse

Design

Lion standing left, breaking spear in jaws.
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Symbol

indistinct symbol (position: in exergue)

Metrology

Denomination

Kardia A 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

20 mm (3x)

Average Weight

8.03 g (3x)

Axes

1 (1x) 6 (1x) 8 (1x)

Citation

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 46, nr. 54 (c. 357/346-309 BC) ❐

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 nr. 301 (2nd half of the 4th cent. BC) ❐

Literature

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 112, nr. 1477 ❐

editions

cn.cardia.2_ed.18 🔍

cn.cardia.1_ed.18 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 447, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/447 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]