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cn coin 11696

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CN Type 6099 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Poseidon, right, wearing taenia.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡ(Ι)
Design
Upright trident, right and left dolphins swimming upwards.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: top right)
Persons

Magistrate: Dioskouri( ) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Poseidon/trident-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
4.59 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: AA.GR.24339

Provenience: Doubles

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 137-139, nr. 1044-1102, pl. 48-51 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 87f., nr. 1417 (Denomination B, late 2nd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 11696, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11696 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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