cn coin 455

Connected to Type

CN Type 6099 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

3. c. BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_1067_V11 🔍

Design

Head of Poseidon, right, wearing taenia.
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Reverse

Die

Byz_1067_R24 🔍

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

Max: 23 mm / Min: 21 mm

Weight

4.92 g

Owner

Staatliche Münzsammlung München, München, de  ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 1067, München 27

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 138, nr. 1067, pl. 49, pic. 1067  ❐

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 455, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_455 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/24]

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