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cn coin 443

Connected to Type
CN Type 6099 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
3. c. BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_1052_V4 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, right, wearing taenia.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1052_R9 🔍
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙ
Design
Upright trident, right and left dolphins swimming upwards.
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Persons
eponymous deity/heroes
Dioskouri( ) 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Poseidon/trident-series 🔍
Material
bronze  🔍
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
5.08 g
Owner
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Bibliothek, Amsterdam, nl
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: 1052, Amsterdam Nr. 6
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 138, nr. 1052, pl. 48, pic. 1052 
Boissevain, Beschreibung der griechischen autonomen Münzen im Besitze der Kön. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1912 p. 6 
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 137-139, nr. 1044-1102, pl. 48-51  
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. 87f., nr. 1417 (Denomination B, late 2nd c. BC)   
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cn coin 443, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_443 [Last downloaded: 2024/11/04]
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