cn coin 699

Connected to Type

CN Type 8778 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

2.-3. c. AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_2099_V12 🔍

Design

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

Die

Byz_2099_R22 🔍

Legend

ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ

Design

Bunch of grapes on vine branch; a leaf on each side. Border of dots.
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Metrology

Denomination

3 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

22 mm

Weight

5.97 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: 2099

Public Commentary

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

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 148, nr. 2099, pl. 129, pic. 2099  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 97, nr. 44  ❐

Svoronos, Νομίσματα ανάλεκτα 3, 1839 pl. 1, pic. 14  ❐

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 699, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_699 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/23]

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