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cn coin 1575

Connected to Type

CN Type 6028 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

250-220/219 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0987_V4 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0987_R8 🔍
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: 26 mm
Weight
13.75 g
Axis
12
Owner

Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž (Ermitage), Sankt Petersburg, ru ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Jakunčikov

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 987

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 134, nr. 987, pl. 42, pic. 987  ❐

Dompierre de Chaufepié and Kerkwijk, Choix de Monnaies et Médailles du Cabinet Royal de la Haye, La Haye 1910 pl. 1, pic. 27  ❐

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 1575, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1575 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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