cn coin 705

Connected to Type

CN Type 8778 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

2.-3. c. AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_2104_V14 🔍

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_2106_R29 🔍

Legend

ΒΥΖΑΝ-ΤΙΩΝ

Design

Bunch of grapes on vine branch. Border of dots.
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Metrology

Denomination

3 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

22 mm

Weight

5.64 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: 2106, Hunter H B15

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 148, nr. 2106.2  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 75, nr. 17  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 395, nr. 15  ❐

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 705, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_705 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/21]

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