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cn coin 1573

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_0983_R5 🔍
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
Max: 27.5 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
13.35 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 983, London 220

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 133, nr. 983, pl. 42, pic. 983  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 95, nr. 25  ❐

Head, Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics, Oxford 1911 p. 268, pic. 166  ❐

Gardner, Archaeology and the types of Greek coins, Chicago 1976 pl. 12, pic. 34  ❐

Literature

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

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