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cn coin 1582

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CN Type 6029 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

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

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0991_V7 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0993_R12 🔍
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
Max: 28 mm / Min: 26.5 mm
Weight
12.79 g
Axis
12
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 993, Wien 1

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 134, nr. 993.3, pl. 43, pic. 993/3  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 134, nr. 992-994, pl. 43 ❐

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cn coin 1582, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1582 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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