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Dionysopolis, bronze coin — Cybele enthroned left (CN type 12846)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 150–100 BC

Issuing entity

Moesia inferior

Coin in bronze struck at Dionysopolis in Moesia inferior, dated c. 150–100 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 12846 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Turreted female head, right. Reverse: Cybele enthroned left, holding patera in outstretched right hand, resting left arm on tympanum. Legend: ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙ–ΔΟΥ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 6.01 g (from 1 recorded specimen) and a diameter of 22 mm (from 1 recorded specimen). Published references cited by the corpus: Tachev, Yanislav, The Coinage of Dionysopolis IV century BC - III century AD, Sofia 2020, p. 436, nr. 1-15, pl. 39; Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000, nr. 122-127 var.; o. A., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Greece 7. The KIKPE Collection of Bronze Coins, Volume I, 2012, nr. 294, pl. 29; 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. 236, nr. 1774.

Evidence at a glance

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Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Recorded diameter
22 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
6.01 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Dionysopolis
Region
Moesia inferior
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Turreted female head, right.
Reverse type
Cybele enthroned left, holding patera in outstretched right hand, resting left arm on tympanum.
Reverse legend
ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙ–ΔΟΥ

Identification

Period
Hellenistic Period
How to identify
Check the mint name or ethnic, the reverse type and the legend together, then compare weight and module; types from the same mint often differ only in legend arrangement, magistrate names or control marks. 1 closely related CN type with the same mint, denomination and design is consolidated into this entry and listed under varieties.
Type corpus record
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12846
Type corpus identifier
CN type 12846

Documentation checklist

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Issue or mint date
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Weight
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Mint or printer
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Catalogue references

Varieties

  • CN type 20253

    Same mint, denomination and design (reverse legend ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙ–ΔΟΥ); dated c. 150–100 BC. Consolidated into this entry

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