cn coin 1206
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cn coin 1206

Connected to Type

CN Type 8569 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

second half 1. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1898_V1 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥΖ*ΑΝ*
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1898_R1 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΔΡΑ-ΧΜΑ
Design
Obelisk of Apollo (Karinos) on a double base.
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Metrology
Denomination
unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 17 mm / Min: 15 mm
Weight
2.91 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: 1898, London 237

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1773

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 131, nr. 1898, pl. 114, pic. 1898  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 96, nr. 37  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 131, nr. 1898-1899, pl. 114, pic. 1898-1899 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 96, nr. 37 ❐

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. 1773 ❐

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