cn coin 1557
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cn coin 1557

Connected to Type

CN Type 6207 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1288_V4 🔍
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Overstrike
Yes.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1288_R6 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤ - ΚΑΛΧΑΔ
Design
Tripod with fixture.
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Metrology
Denomination
ByzKalch: Apollo/tripod-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
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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