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cn coin 1515

Connected to Type

CN Type 6164 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1210_V70 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1210_R74 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΗΡΑΚΛΕ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Persons

Magistrate: Heraklei… 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
10.76 g
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Hunter

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1210, Hunter, H B6

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 144, nr. 1210  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 74, nr. 5, pl. 13, pic. 19  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 394, nr. 6  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 144, nr. 1209-1211, pl. 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 1515, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1515 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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