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cn coin 1240

Connected to Type

CN Type 8746 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

2. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1929_V9 🔍
Design
Draped bust of Artemis, right, wearing hair knot; behind, quiver; in front, bow.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1931_R23 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Crescent; above, single star with eight rays. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
4.20 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: 1931, London 244

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 133, nr. 1931.1, pl. 116, pic. 1931/1  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 97, nr. 41  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 133, nr. 1927-1933, pl. 116, pic. 1927-1933 (type criterion: hairdress)  ❐

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cn coin 1240, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1240 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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