cn coin 11720

Connected to Type

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

(position: top right)

Persons

Magistrate: Dioskouri( ) 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

Byzantium: Poseidon/trident-series 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

3.99 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: AA.GR.15497

Provenience: Fonds général; Ex coll. Gaudin

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 11720, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11720 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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