cn coin 1557
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cn coin 1557

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CN Type 6207 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1288_V4 🔍
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right.
go to the NLP result of this description
Overstrike
Yes.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1288_R6 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤ - ΚΑΛΧΑΔ
Design
Metrology
Denomination
ByzKalch: Apollo/tripod-series 🔍
Material
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
5.70 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.: 380

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 1288, Paris 255

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 150, nr. 1288, pl. 61, pic. 1288 

Mionnet, T.1. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, Paris 1806 p. 377, nr. 92 

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 1557, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1557 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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