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cn coin 1527

Connected to Type

CN Type 6167 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1222_V4 🔍
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, left.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1222_R8 🔍
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
18 mm
Weight
5.12 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1222, Sir Weber 2564

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 145, nr. 1222, pl. 57, pic. 1222  ❐

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 pl. 97, pic. 2564  ❐

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 1527, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1527 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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