cn type 8159
cn type 8159-0
cn type 8159-1
Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn type 8159

Mint
Madytos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 350-300 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Bull charging left, butting with head.
go to the NLP result of this description
Symbol
corn-ear (position: above)
Reverse
Legend
ΜΑΔΥ
Design
Dog seated right.
go to the NLP result of this description
Symbol
corn-ear (position: on the left) crescent (position: top left)
Metrology
Denomination
small denomination (bronze) 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 17 mm / Min: 15 mm
Average Weight
2.98 g (3x)
Axes
6 (2x) 8 (1x)
Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 197, nr. 1 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 923-925 ❐

editions

cn.madytus.1_ed.12  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 8159, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8159 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us

Related Coins