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cn coin 1579

Connected to Type

CN Type 6028 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

250-220/219 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0989_V6 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0991_R10 🔍
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
13.55 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 990, deL

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 134, nr. 990, pl. 42, pic. 990  ❐

Babelon, Catalogue de la collection de Luynes: Monnaies greques 2, Paris 1925 pl. 67, pic. 1766  ❐

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 1579, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1579 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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