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cn coin 1562

Connected to Type

CN Type 6208 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1295_V4 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, left, wearing taenia.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1295_R6 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ // ΚΑΛΧΑ
Design
Prow, left.
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Metrology
Denomination
ByzKalch: Poseidon/prow-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
5.60 g
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Imhoof

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1295, Imh. Byz. Kalch.

Citation

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

Imhoof-Blumer, Friedrich, Antike griechische Münzen 19, 1913 p. 14, nr. 24  ❐

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 1562, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1562 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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