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Kromna, bronze coin — Amphora (CN type 23920)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 360–300 BC

Issuing entity

Kromna

Coin in bronze struck at Kromna, dated c. 360–300 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 23920 (period: Classical/Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Head of Hera left, wearing necklace, earrings and turreted stephane. Reverse: Amphora; above, bunch of grape. Legend: ΚΡΩΜ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 3.95 g (mean of 3 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 15–19 mm (from 3 recorded specimens). Published references cited by the corpus: Price, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum 9 The British Museum 1. The Black Sea, 1993, nr. 1348; Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942, nr. 267; Kleiner et al., Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Sammlung v. Aulock. Pontus, Paphlagonien, Bithynien, 1-1049, Berlin 1957, nr. 189.

Evidence at a glance

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Photograph views
3
Catalogue references
3

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Historical context

Kromna, also recorded as Cromna, was a town situated on the Paphlagonian coast in modern Turkey. According to Stephanus of Byzantium, it received its name from Kromnos, the son of Lykaon, and it is also mentioned by Homer in the Iliad. Positioned 60 stadia east of Erythini and 90 west of Cytorus, its site is identified by modern scholars near modern Tekeönü in Bartın Province. As an autonomous city, it produced coinage across the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Recorded diameter
15–19 mm (from 3 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
3.95 g (mean of 3 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Kromna
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Head of Hera left, wearing necklace, earrings and turreted stephane.
Reverse type
Amphora; above, bunch of grape.
Reverse legend
ΚΡΩΜ

Identification

Period
Classical/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. 2 closely related CN types with the same mint, denomination and design are consolidated into this entry and listed under varieties.
Type corpus record
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/23920
Type corpus identifier
CN type 23920

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Catalogue references

Varieties

  • CN type 23921

    Same mint, denomination and design (reverse legend ΚΡΩΜ); dated c. 360–300 BC. Consolidated into this entry

  • CN type 23922

    Same mint, denomination and design (reverse legend ΚΡΩΜ); dated c. 360–300 BC. Consolidated into this entry

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