cn coin 692

Connected to Type

CN Type 7126 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

2.-3. c. AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_2092_V10 🔍

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, one curl falling on each shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse

Die

Byz_2092_R15 🔍

Legend

ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ

Design

Bunch of grapes on vine branch; to left, a leaf. Border of dots.
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Metrology

Denomination

3 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

23 mm

Weight

6.22 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: 2092, Hunter H B 12

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10363

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 147, nr. 2092, pl. 129, pic. 2092  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 75, nr. 13  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 395, nr. 12  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 147, nr. 2084f., 2089-2094, pl. 128, pic. 2084 (Type criterion: two curls)   ❐

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. 10364  ❐

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cn coin 692, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_692 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/12]

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