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Krithote, medium denomination (bronze) — Grain (CN type 491)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 350–281 BC

Issuing entity

Thrace

Medium denomination (bronze) struck at Krithote in Thrace, dated c. 350–281 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 491 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet. Reverse: Grain. Legend: ΚΡΙ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 5.67 g (mean of 8 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 18–21 mm (from 5 recorded specimens). Published references cited by the corpus: Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen, nr. 888; 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. 115, nr. 1489.

Evidence at a glance

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Historical context

This bronze coin was produced by the city of Krithote in Thrace, a historical and geographical region located in Southeast Europe bounded by the Balkan Mountains, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea. In classical antiquity, lands inhabited by ancient Thracians extended north to modern-day Northern Bulgaria and Romania, as well as west into Northern Greece, North Macedonia and Serbia. The region later roughly corresponded to a province within the Roman Empire.

Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Denomination
medium denomination (bronze)
Recorded diameter
18–21 mm (from 5 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
5.67 g (mean of 8 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Krithote
Region
Thrace
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet.
Reverse type
Grain.
Reverse legend
ΚΡΙ

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/491
Type corpus identifier
CN type 491

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