cn coin 1190
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cn coin 1190

Connected to Type

CN Type 8566 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

second half 1. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1886_V1 🔍
Design
Beardless male head (Marcus Antonius), left.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1886_R1 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ-ΖΑΝ/ΤΙ-ΩΝ
Design
Prow with naval ram, right, on top trophy, at its bottom, anchor and rudder crossing. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Marcus Antonius 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 18 mm / Min: 17 mm
Weight
3.48 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1886, London 154

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1770

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 130, nr. 1886.3, pl. 113, pic. 1886/3  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 99, nr. 60  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 130, nr. 1886-1890, pl. 113, pic. 1886-1890 ❐

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 nr. 1770 ❐

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cn coin 1190, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1190 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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