cn coin 1571

Connected to Type

CN Type 6028 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

250-220/219 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_0981_V1 🔍

Design

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

Die

Byz_0982_R4 🔍

Legend

ΒΥ ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΥ

Design

Poseidon seated right on rock, holding aplustre and trident.
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Monogram

(position: on the right)

Persons

Magistrate

Meniskos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

26 mm

Weight

12.50 g

Owner

Koninklijk Kabinet van Munten, Penningen en Gesneden Stenen - Den Haag / Nationale Numismatische Collectie - Amsterdam, Amsterdam, nl  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: 1981

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 982, Haag 1981

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 133, nr. 982.2  ❐

Hirsch, Auktionskatalog 16, München 1958 pl. 2, pic. 62  ❐

Hirsch, Auktionskatalog 19, München 1958 pl. 3, pic. 67  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 133-134, nr. 979-991, pl. 42-43  ❐

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