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cn coin 1551

Connected to Type

CN Type 6206 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1281_V22 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1281_R25 🔍
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
Max: 29 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
8.80 g
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1281, Wien Byz.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 149, nr. 1281, pl. 61, pic. 1281  ❐

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 1551, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1551 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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