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cn coin 1556

Connected to Type

CN Type 6207 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1287_V3 🔍
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1287_R5 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤ - ΚΑΛΧΑΔ
Design
Tripod with fixture.
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Metrology
Denomination
ByzKalch: Apollo/tripod-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
5.20 g
Axis
12
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1287, London 103

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 150, nr. 1287, pl. 61, pic. 1287  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 107, nr. 1  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 150, nr. 1283-1289 ❐

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. 89, nr. 1427 (Denomination B)  ❐

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cn coin 1556, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1556 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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