cn coin 1551

Connected to Type

CN Type 6206 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

3. c. BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_1281_V22 🔍

Design

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

Die

Byz_1281_R25 🔍

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

Max: 29 mm / Min: 25 mm

Weight

8.80 g

Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 1281, Wien Byz.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 149, nr. 1281, pl. 61, pic. 1281  ❐

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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cn coin 1551, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1551 [Last downloaded: 2025/03/23]

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