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cn coin 11725

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CN Type 6121 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Countermark
helmet to r. with cheek and neck protection in linear square.
Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΑΣΩΠΙΟΥ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nude Poseidon standing facing, head left, with chlamys over left shoulder, holing Nike in his outstretched right hand and resting his left on trident.
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Countermark
ear of corn, circular
Persons

Magistrate: Asopios 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Dionysus/Poseidon-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
7.72 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 2002.353

Provenience: Henri Seyrig

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 139-140, nr. 1103-1130, pl. 51-52 ❐

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. 87, nr. 1415 (Denomination A/B, 2nd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 11725, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11725 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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