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cn coin 1571

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_0982_R4 🔍
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
26 mm
Weight
12.50 g
Owner

Koninklijk Kabinet van Munten, Penningen en Gesneden Stenen - Den Haag / Nationale Numismatische Collectie - Amsterdam, Amsterdam, nl ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1981

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 982, Haag 1981

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 133, nr. 982.2  ❐

Hirsch, Auktionskatalog 16, München 1958 pl. 2, pic. 62  ❐

Hirsch, Auktionskatalog 19, München 1958 pl. 3, pic. 67  ❐

Literature

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

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