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cn coin 1569

Connected to Type

CN Type 6028 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

250-220/219 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0981_V1 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0981_R3 🔍
Legend
ΒΥ ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΥ
Design
Poseidon seated right on rock, holding aplustre and trident.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the right)
Persons

Magistrate: Meniskos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm
Weight
12.24 g
Owner

Staatliche Münzsammlung München, München, de ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 981, München 14

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 133, nr. 981, pl. 42, pic. 981  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 133-134, nr. 979-991, pl. 42-43 ❐

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cn coin 1569, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1569 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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