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cn coin 1533

Connected to Type

CN Type 6169 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1227_V8 🔍
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, left.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1228_R14 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΕΚ
Design
Obelisk on an omphalos.
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Persons

Magistrate: Menek... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Apollo/obelisk-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
6.70 g
Axis
12
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: 1228, Hunter H B8

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 145, nr. 1228  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 75, nr. 20, pl. 13, pic. 24  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 394, nr. 8  ❐

Head, Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics, Oxford 1911 nr. 268  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 145, nr. 1226-1228, 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 1533, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1533 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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