cn type 486

Mint

Krithote 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 350-281 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Demeter facing, slightly right.

Reverse

Legend

ΚΡΙΘΟΥΣΙΩΝ

Design

Grain within corn wreath.

Metrology

Denomination

large denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Average Diameter

21.14 mm / 20.67 mm

Average Weight

7.39 g (10x)

Axes

3 (2x) 6 (1x) 8 (1x) 11 (1x) 12 (2x)

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 194, nr. 1 ❐

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. 115, nr. 1488 ❐

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cn type 486, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/486 [Last downloaded: 2022/05/19]

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