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cn coin 1584

Connected to Type

CN Type 6031 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

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

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0995_V8 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0995_R14 🔍
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
27.4 mm
Weight
12.84 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett und Antikensammlung der Stadt Winterthur, Winterthur, ch ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1181

Provenience: Imhoof, Bernhard

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 995, Winterthur 1181

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 134, nr. 995.2, pl. 43, pic. 995/2  ❐

Bloesch, Griechische Münzen in Winterthur, Winterthur 1987 p. 110, nr. 1181, pl. 51, pic. 1181  ❐

Brüder Egger, Sammlung des Herrn Theodor Prowe Moskau und aus anderem Besitz. Auktions-Katalog 46, Wien 1914 pl. 5, pic. 213  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 134, nr. 995, pl. 43 ❐

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cn coin 1584, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1584 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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