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cn coin 523

Connected to Type
CN Type 6131 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
3. c. BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_1149_V15 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1149_R19 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ - ΕΠΙ / ΒΟΣΠΩΝΟΣ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Persons
Magistrate
Bospon 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze  🔍
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 23 mm
Weight
6.80 g
Owner
Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg  
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Sammlung Abramov
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: 1149, Abramov
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 141, nr. 1148-1153, pl. 53  
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. 1414 (Denomination A/B, 3rd c. BC)   
Cite this record:
cn coin 523, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_523 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/21]
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