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cn coin 1503

Connected to Type

CN Type 6159 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1199_V59 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Countermark
Grapes. = Byz_1166
Reverse
Die
Byz_1199_R64 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ / ΕΚΑΤΟΔΩΡ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Countermark
Dolphin; round.
Persons

Magistrate: Hekatodoros 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 23 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
7.31 g
Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1199, OXF 10

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1199, pl. 56, pic. 1199  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1191-1199, pl. 55-56 ❐

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)  ❐

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cn coin 1503, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1503 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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