cn coin 698

Connected to Type

CN Type 8778 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

2.-3. c. AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_2095_V11 🔍

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, two curls falling on his right and one on his left shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse

Die

Byz_2097_R20 🔍

Legend

ΒΥΖΑΝ-ΤΙΩΝ

Design

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

Denomination

3 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 24 mm / Min: 23 mm

Weight

7.10 g

Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 2097, Leake 12

Public Commentary

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

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 148, nr. 2097, pl. 129, pic. 2097  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 148-149, nr. 2095-2118, pl. 1291-30, pic. 2104-2116 (type criterion: 3 curls)   ❐

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cn coin 698, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_698 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/27]

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