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Imbros, small denomination (bronze) — Orthanes standing right (CN type 20034)

DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.

Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

386–276/261 BC

Issuing entity

Thrace

Small denomination (bronze) struck at Imbros in Thrace, dated 386–276/261 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 20034 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Head of a goddess, right. Reverse: Orthanes standing right, holding patera and branch; at his feet, thymiaterion. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 1.92 g (from 1 recorded specimen). Published references cited by the corpus: Ruhl, Imbros: Archäologie einer nordostägäischen Insel, Marburg 2018, p. 278, nr. 1.7; Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen, nr. 957.

Evidence at a glance

Linked sources
4
Photograph views
1
Catalogue references
2

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Historical context

This bronze piece was struck at Imbros in Thrace as a civic issue dating to 386–276/261 BC during the Hellenistic Period. Imbros is an island located in the north-northeastern Aegean Sea at the entrance of Saros Bay. Historically inhabited by ethnic Greeks from the Iron Age, the island formed part of the regional maritime landscape of Thrace.

Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Denomination
small denomination (bronze)
Recorded mean weight
1.92 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Imbros
Region
Thrace
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Head of a goddess, right.
Reverse type
Orthanes standing right, holding patera and branch; at his feet, thymiaterion.

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.
Type corpus record
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20034
Type corpus identifier
CN type 20034

Documentation checklist

Denomination
Recorded
Issue or mint date
Recorded
Material
Recorded
Weight
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Mint or printer
Recorded
Mint or printer mark
Research required
Catalogue reference
Recorded
Attached photograph (check rights)
Recorded

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Catalogue references

Research required

  • Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
  • Legends not transcribed in the source corpus
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