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cn coin 1577

Connected to Type

CN Type 6028 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. middle 3. c.-220/219 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0989_V6 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0988_R9 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΥ
Design
Poseidon seated right on rock, naked to waist, holding aplustre in outstretched right hand and trident in left arm over his shoulder; to right, monogram. Ground line.
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Persons

Magistrate: Meniskos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
13.43 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18216017

Provenience: Sammlung Löbbecke

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 989, Löbb

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 134, nr. 989.1, pl. 42, pic. 989/1  ❐

Hamburger, Auktionskatalog, Frankfurt am Main 1889 pl. 1, pic. 86  ❐

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 1577, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1577 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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