cn coin 505

Connected to Type

CN Type 6121 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

3. c. BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_1125_V15 🔍

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Countermark

Helmet.

Reverse

Die

Byz_1125_R23 🔍

Legend

ΕΠΙ / ΑΣΩΠΙΟΥ - ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ

Design

Nude Poseidon standing facing, head left, chlamys over left shoulder, holding Nike standing left in outstretched right hand and trident in left arm.
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Countermark

Ear; round.

Persons

Magistrate

Asopios 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Byzantium: Dionysus/Poseidon-series 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 23 mm / Min: 22 mm

Weight

6.94 g

Owner

Staatliche Münzsammlung München, München, de  ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 1125, München 19

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 140, nr. 1125, pl. 52, pic. 1125  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 139-140, nr. 1103-1130, pl. 51-52  ❐

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. 87, nr. 1415 (Denomination A/B, 2nd c. BC)   ❐

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cn coin 505, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_505 [Last downloaded: 2025/03/23]

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