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cn coin 1544

Connected to Type

CN Type 6180 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1249_V1 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, left, wearing taenia; behind him trident.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1249_R1 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑ // ΠΥΘΟ
Design
Prow, left.
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Persons

Magistrate: Pytho... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Poseidon/prow-series, small 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
16.9 mm
Weight
2.76 g
Axis
2
Owner

Münzkabinett und Antikensammlung der Stadt Winterthur, Winterthur, ch ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1183

Provenience: 1895 A. O. van Lennep

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: W1183

Citation

Bloesch, Griechische Münzen in Winterthur, Winterthur 1987 p. 110, nr. 1183, pl. 51  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 146, nr. 1249-1250, pl. 59 ❐

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. 88, nr. 1421 (Denomination C, 2nd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 1544, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1544 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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