cn type 7172
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cn type 7172

Mint
Istros 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

c. 360/350-300 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Two young male heads, facing, side by side, right one inverted.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΙΣΤΡΙΗ
Design
Sea-eagle on dolphin standing left.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: below)
Symbol
dot / pellet (position: on the right) dot / pellet (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 17.5 mm
Average Weight
4.70 g (2x)
Citation

Dima, The Silver Coinage of Istros during the Hellenistic Period, Wetteren 2014 p. 25, nr. 7, pl. 12, pic. 3-4  ❐

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 164, nr. 436  ❐

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cn type 7172, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/7172 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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