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Alopekonnesos, small denomination (bronze) — Cantharus (CN type 393)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

300–250 BC

Issuing entity

Thrace

Small denomination (bronze) struck at Alopekonnesos in Thrace, dated 300–250 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 393 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Head of Godess (Persephone/Demeter?) with laurel wreath (or ears of grain?), right. Reverse: Cantharus. Legend: ΑΛΩΠΕΚΟΝ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 3.98 g (mean of 5 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 15–15.6 mm (from 3 recorded specimens). Published references cited by the corpus: Yarkin, The Coinage of Alopeconnesus in Thracian Chersonesus 187, 1978, p. 5, nr. 55-56, pl. I.

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Historical context

Alopeconnesus, or Alopekonnesos, was an ancient Greek city and Aeolian colony situated on the western coast of ancient Thrace, in the Thracian Chersonesus. According to tradition, settlers founded the colony after being directed by an oracle to establish it where they encountered a fox with its cub. The city became a member of the Delian League and was allied with Athens during the Macedonian ascendancy, producing bronze civic coinage during the Hellenistic period between 300 and 250 BC.

Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Denomination
small denomination (bronze)
Recorded diameter
15–15.6 mm (from 3 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
3.98 g (mean of 5 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Alopekonnesos
Region
Thrace
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Head of Godess (Persephone/Demeter?) with laurel wreath (or ears of grain?), right.
Reverse type
Cantharus.
Reverse legend
ΑΛΩΠΕΚΟΝ

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/393
Type corpus identifier
CN type 393

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