cn coin 1501

Connected to Type

CN Type 6159 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

3. c. BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_1197_V57 🔍

Design

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

Grapes. = Byz_1133 und 1212.

Reverse

Die

Byz_1197_R62 🔍

Legend

ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ / ΕΚΑΤΟΔΩΡ

Design

Cornucopia.
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Countermark

Dolphin; round.

Persons

Magistrate

Hekatodoros 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 26 mm / Min: 25 mm

Weight

7.46 g

Axis

12

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 1197, London 170

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1197, pl. 56, pic. 1197  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 96, nr. 34  ❐

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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