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cn coin 1589

Connected to Type

CN Type 6050 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

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

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1006_V16 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1006_R24 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ϹΦΟΔΡΙΑ; mon. ΙΣ
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: Sphodrias 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
13.78 g
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Hunter

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1006, Hunter 2

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1006.2, pl. 44, pic. 1006/2  ❐

Eckhel, Numi veteres anecdoti ex museis Caesareo Vindobonensi, Florentino magni ducis Etruriae, Granelliano nunc Caesareo, Vitzaiano, Festeticsiano, Savorgnano Veneto, aliisque, Viennae Austriae 1775 p. 56, pl. 4, pic. 19  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 74, nr. 2  ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 240, nr. 204  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 393, nr. 2, pl. 26, pic. 15  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1006, pl. 44 ❐

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