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cn type 456

Mint
Kardia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357/346-309 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter facing, slightly turned left, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΚΑΡΔΙΑ
Design
Lion standing left, head turned back.
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Symbol
star (position: on the left) grain of barley (position: below)
Metrology
Denomination
Kardia A 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 21 mm / Min: 19 mm
Average Weight
5.89 g (10x)
Axes
4 (1x) 5 (1x) 6 (4x) 11 (1x) 12 (2x)
Citation

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 47, nr. 82-89  ❐

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. 1478 ❐

editions

cn.cardia.2_ed.2  🔍

cn.cardia.1_ed.2  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 456, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/456 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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