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cn coin 1549

Connected to Type

CN Type 6206 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1279_V20 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Countermark
B?
Reverse
Die
Byz_1279_R23 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ - ΚΑΛΧΑΔ
Design
Poseidon seated right on rock, naked to waist, holding aplustre in outstretched right hand and trident in left arm over his shoulder.
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Metrology
Denomination
ByzKalch: Demeter/Poseidon-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
10.37 g
Axis
12
Owner

Istanbul Arkeoloji, Müzeleri Müdurlügü, Istanbul, tr

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 390

Provenience: Sammlung Diojen

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1279, Istanbul 390

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 149, nr. 1279, pl. 61, pic. 1279  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 149, nr. 1276-1282, pl. 60-61 ❐

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. 90, nr. 1428 (Denomination B)  ❐

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cn coin 1549, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1549 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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