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cn coin 1561

Connected to Type

CN Type 6208 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1293_V2 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, left, wearing taenia.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1293_R4 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ // ΚΑΛΧΑ
Design
Prow, left.
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Metrology
Denomination
ByzKalch: Poseidon/prow-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 22.5 mm
Weight
6.03 g
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1293, Hunter

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 150, nr. 1293, pl. 62, pic. 1293  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 74, nr. 12, pl. 13, pic. 22  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 398, nr. 1, pl. 27, pic. 3  ❐

Head, Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics, Oxford 1911 nr. 269  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 150, nr. 1290-1295, pl. 62 ❐

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. 1430 (Denomination B)  ❐

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cn coin 1561, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1561 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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