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cn coin 1492

Connected to Type

CN Type 6157 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1188_V49 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1188_R53 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΑΘΑΝΑ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Persons

Magistrate: Athanaion 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 26 mm
Weight
8.70 g
Axis
12
Owner

Nomismatiko Mouseio, Athen, gr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Stamules

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1188, Stamules 136

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1188  ❐

Oikonomos and Varoucha-Christodoulopoulos, Νομισματική Συλλογή Αναστασίου Σταμούλη, Athen 1955 nr. 136  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1179-1189, pl. 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 1492, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1492 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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