cn type 653
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cn type 653

Mint
Bisanthe 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Dionysus, right, quiver behind.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙ
Design
Vine branch with bunches of grape on right and on left.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal B 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15 mm / Min: 12 mm
Average Weight
1.91 g (3x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 10, nr. 37, pl. 2  (Denomination B)  ❐

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. 68, nr. 1365  (Denomination C/D. For stilistic reasons dated to the 2nd c. BC.)  ❐

editions

cn.bisanthe.1_ed.5  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 653, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/653 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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