cn coin 1547

Connected to Type

CN Type 6206 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

3. c. BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_1277_V18 🔍

Design

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

Die

Byz_1277_R21 🔍

Legend

ΒΥΖΑΝ - ΚΑΛΧΑΔ

Design

Poseidon seated right on rock, naked to waist, holding aplustre in outstretched right hand and trident in left arm over his shoulder.
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Metrology

Denomination

ByzKalch: Demeter/Poseidon-series 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

25 mm

Weight

10.37 g

Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Sammlung Hunter

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 1277, Hunter 2

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 149, nr. 1277, pl. 61, pic. 1277  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 74, nr. 3, pl. 13, pic. 18  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 398, nr. 2  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 149, nr. 1276-1282, pl. 60-61  ❐

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. 90, nr. 1428 (Denomination B)   ❐

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