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

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)   ❐

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cn coin 523, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_523 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/21]

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