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cn coin 11425

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CN Type 6047 🔍

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

250-220/219 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΥ ΕΠΙ ΣΦΟΔΡΙΑ
Design
Poseidon seated right on rock, holding aplustre and trident.
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Symbol
ΣΙ (position: )
Persons

Magistrate: Sphodrias 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
12.26 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: R 2913

Provenience: Henri Seyrig

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Büyükçekmece, tr [tr] ❐

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IGCH 867 ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1004-1005.1007-1013, pl. 44-45 ❐

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cn coin 11425, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11425 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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