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cn coin 1588

Connected to Type

CN Type 6039 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

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

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1003_V14 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1003_R21 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΣΙΛΩΝΟΣ
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: Silon 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 30 mm / Min: 27 mm
Weight
14.02 g
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1003, Pozzi 1921, XXXVII 1135

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1003, pl. 44, pic. 1003  ❐

Naville, Sammlung S. Pozzi 1, Genua 1920 pl. 37, pic. 1135  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1003, pl. 44 ❐

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cn coin 1588, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1588 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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