cn coin 1590

Connected to Type

CN Type 6047 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. middle 3. c.-220/219 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_1009_V17 🔍

Design

Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse

Die

Byz_1009_R26 🔍

Legend

ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΣΦΟΔΡΙΑ; mon. ΣΙ

Design

Poseidon seated right on rock, naked to waist, holding aplustre in outstretched right hand and trident in left arm over his shoulder; to right, monogram. Ground line.
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Persons

Magistrate

Sphodrias 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

27 mm

Weight

13.86 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: 1009, Hunter H B3

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1009, pl. 44, pic. 1009  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 393, nr. 1  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1004-1005.1007-1013, pl. 44-45  ❐

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cn coin 1590, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1590 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/11]

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