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cn coin 527

Connected to Type
CN Type 6133 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
3. c. BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_1156_V22 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Countermark
Ear; round.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1156_R25 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ - ΕΠΙ / ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΥ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Countermark
Star with eight rays; round.
Persons
Magistrate
Meniskos 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze  🔍
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
10.75 g
Owner
British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: 1156, London 231
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142, nr. 1156, pl. 54, pic. 1156 
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142, nr. 1154-1166, pl. 54  
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 527, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_527 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/10]
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