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cn coin 1490

Connected to Type

CN Type 6156 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1174_V38 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1174_R42 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΕΚΡ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Persons

Magistrate: Menekr... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26.5 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
10.54 g
Owner

Istanbul Arkeoloji, Müzeleri Müdurlügü, Istanbul, tr

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 345

Provenience: Sammlung Diojen

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1174, Istanbul 345

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 141, nr. 1174, pl. 54, pic. 1174  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142-143, nr. 1167-1178, pl. 54-55 ❐

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. 1414 (Denomination A/B, 3rd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 1490, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1490 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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