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cn coin 1601

Connected to Type
CN Type 6058 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
c. middle 3. c.-220/219 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_1022_V25 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1022_R35 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΕΚΑΤΟΔΩΡΟΥ
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
Hekatodoros 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
13.69 g
Owner
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: 58308
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: 1022, Pozzi 1921 XXXVII 1134
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 136, nr. 1022.1 
Naville, Sammlung S. Pozzi 1, Genua 1920 pl. 37, pic. 1134 
o. A., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. The Lockett Collection 3/2. Sicily-Thrace (Gold and Silver), Oxford 1957 p. 23, nr. 1178 
Glendining & Co., Sammlung R. C. Lockett 2, London 1958 pl. 4, pic. 1094 
Comstock and Vermuele, Greek coins 1950 to 1963. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 1964 pl. 6, pic. 69 
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 136, nr. 1017-1025, pl. 45-46  
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cn coin 1601, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1601 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/25]
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