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cn coin 1521

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CN Type 6167 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1215_V1 🔍
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, left.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1216_R2 🔍
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
5.79 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 345

Provenience: Fonds général 345

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1216, Paris 345

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 145, nr. 1216, pl. 57, pic. 1216  ❐

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 1521, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1521 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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