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cn type 486

Mint
Krithote 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 350-281 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Demeter facing, slightly right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΚΡΙΘΟΥΣΙΩΝ
Design
Grain within corn wreath.
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Metrology
Denomination
large denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 22 mm / Min: 19 mm
Average Weight
7.60 g (20x)
Axes
3 (2x) 5 (1x) 6 (3x) 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  (Denomination B.)  ❐

editions

cn.crithote.1_ed.2  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 486, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/486 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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