cn coin 668

Connected to Type

CN Type 7039 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 178 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_2066_V20 🔍

Legend

ΒΥΖΑΣ

Design

Head of bearded Byzas, right, wearing crested helmet with open visor. Border of dots.
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Reverse

Die

Byz_2065_R29 🔍

Legend

ЄΠΙ ΑΙ ΠΟΝΤΙΚΟV *ΗΡ*

Design

Prow with naval ram, right. Border of dots.
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Persons

eponymous deity/heroes

Aelius Ponticus 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

4 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

24 mm

Weight

9.39 g

Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 2066, Hunter 21

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8729

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 145, nr. 2066, pl. 127, pic. 2066  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 74, nr. 10  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 395, nr. 21  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 145, nr. 2065.2066  ❐

Oikonomos and Varoucha-Christodoulopoulos, Νομισματική Συλλογή Αναστασίου Σταμούλη, Athen 1955 nr. 191  ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 8729  ❐

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cn coin 668, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_668 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/18]

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