cn coin 1496

Connected to Type

CN Type 6159 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

3. c. BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_1191_V52 🔍

Design

Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse

Die

Byz_1191_R56 🔍

Legend

ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ / ΕΚΑΤΟΔΩΡ

Design

Cornucopia.
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Persons

Magistrate

Hekatodoros 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

24 mm

Weight

7.88 g

Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 1191, Sofia

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1191, pl. 55, pic. 1191  ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 3246, pl. 16, pic. 19  ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 3246, pl. 16, pic. 19  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1191-1199, pl. 55-56  ❐

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. 87, nr. 1414 (Denomination A/B)   ❐

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