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cn coin 1542

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CN Type 6178 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1247_V4 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, left, wearing taenia; behind him trident.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1247_R4 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΜΑΤΡ
Design
Prow, left.
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Persons

Magistrate: Matrikon 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Poseidon/prow-series, large 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
7.25 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.: 348

Provenience: Fonds général 348

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1247, Paris 348

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 146, nr. 1247, pl. 58, pic. 1247  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 146, nr. 1244-1248, pl. 58 ❐

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. 1416 (Denomination B)  ❐

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cn coin 1542, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1542 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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