cn coin 1209
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cn coin 1209

Connected to Type

CN Type 8570 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

During time of Augustus

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1900_V1 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥΖΑΝ-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Two torches.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1900_R1 🔍
Design
Monogram within wreath, bound at bottom.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: not specified)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
1.86 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: 1900, London 255

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1776

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 131, nr. 1900, pl. 114, pic. 1900  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 98, nr. 53  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Bithynische Münzen, 1898 p. 16, nr. 10  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 131-132, nr. 1900-1906, pl. 114, pic. 1900-1906 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 98, nr. 53 ❐

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. 1776 (c. 10 BC)  ❐

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