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cn coin 1587

Connected to Type

CN Type 6037 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

250-220/219 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1002_V13 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1002_R20 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΑΘΑΝΑΙΩΝΟΣ
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: Athanaion 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27.6 mm / Min: 27 mm
Weight
13.76 g
Axis
11
Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

Provenience: The Baltimore Museum of Art; Naville 1923; coll. C. S. Bement

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1002, Naville VI. 871

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 134, nr. 1002.1, pl. 44, pic. 1002/1  ❐

Naville, Sammlung C. S. Bement/Philadelphia USA 6, Genua 1923 pl. 31, pic. 871  ❐

Bernhart, Antike Münzbilder im humanistischen Unterricht, München 1928 p. 60, nr. 109, pl. 14  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 134, nr. 1001-1002, pl. 44 ❐

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