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cn coin 1520

Connected to Type

CN Type 6167 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1215_V1 🔍
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, left.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1215_R1 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ - ΕΠΙ / ΦΟΚΡΙΤ
Design
Obelisk on an omphalos.
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Persons

Magistrate: Phokritos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Apollo/obelisk-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 19 mm
Weight
6.24 g
Owner

Istanbul Arkeoloji, Müzeleri Müdurlügü, Istanbul, tr

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 349

Provenience: Sammlung Diojen

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1215, Istanbul 349

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 145, nr. 1215, pl. 57, pic. 1215  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 145, nr. 1215-1223, pl. 57 ❐

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. 1413 (Denomination A/B)  ❐

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cn coin 1520, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1520 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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