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cn type 655

Mint
Bisanthe 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙ(ΣΑΝ)
Design
Ethnic within grain ear wreath.
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Metrology
Denomination
Bisanthe: nominal C 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 14 mm / Min: 11 mm
Average Weight
1.93 g (14x)
Axes
2 (2x) 7 (1x) 12 (5x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 10, nr. 38-41  ❐

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. 1367  ❐

editions

cn.bisanthe.1_ed.14  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 655, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/655 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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